WALKING OPERA in Notting Hill
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Ruta Vitkauskaite is supported by PRS Foundation's The Opera Fund for Music Creators
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Voice Exploration Workshops
We are to share with you opera experience from within - through exploring interesting vocal techniques, and creating a new opera sounds, and even attempting to compose one opera scene together!
We strongly believe that singing is one of the most healthy ways to spend your evening, to better understand yourself, and to create stronger bond with other members of the community. Whether you consider yourself as opera fan, or not, this meeting will be the way to discover your own opera within yourself - through various ways of singing, - a little bit operatically, and non operatically, and not operatically at all! As a special treat, you will also have a chance to explore very ancient Lithuanian songs - sutartines. Leading: composer Ruta Vitkauskaite, opera singers Janet Oates, Elisenda Pujals and Aasa Nordgren, also joined by ancient folk song 'sutartines' explorers Vejuna Zalalyte and Beatrice Bukantyte. *these workshops will be audio recorded (note:no video), and later re-composed for the Walking Opera sound-walk event in September All events are FREE, booking essential. (no previous experience in opera or singing is necessary) LOCATION - Latvian House, 72 Queensborough Terrace, London, W2 3SH PAST EVENTS: VOICE EXPLORATION WORSHOP, Thursday 12 July, 7:00pm VOICE EXPLORATION WORKSHOP - FAMILY FRIENDLY, Saturday 14 July, 13:00 All events are part of Baltic Art Form 2018 festival |
The Sound-Walk
Experience of opera on the walk through the streets of Notting Hill. Lead by the usher, the audience will see familiar streets and buildings acting as the scenery of the opera. The voices of people of local areas - their stories and their musical compositions - will accompany the walk. The statues, frescos and objects seen along the way will come to life through arias and recitatives. The story of the opera unfolds as you - the audience - become the main character, the hero of this journey.
THE MUSIC AND THE STORY The music for this opera was produced through the Voice Exploration Workshops with the communities of Notting Hill. During the workshops, the participants were exploring vocal techniques and their own very unique voices. They learn to sing opera, ancient songs 'sutartines', and invented their own sounds. They then were invited to use those techniques to co-create a sound-world for specific parts of the walk. The leaders of the workshops - composer Ruta Vitkauskaite, sopranos Janet Oates, Elisenda Pujals and Åsa Nordgren, and sutartines singers Vejuna Zalalyte and Beatrice Bukantyte, as well as sound artist Michael Idehall - linked all the musical material into a musical story, inspired by the area of Notting Hill; and decorated it with characteristic arias. DATE Fri 28 Sep, 1pm and 5pm TICKETS Walking Opera is strictly limited for 20 people at one time. Each member of the audience will be provided with wireless headphones, and will be expected to follow the lead of the usher in a comfortable walking phase for the entire duration of the opera. The walk will start at Print House of the Coronet, and finish in the Kensington Gardens West Entrance. Duration of the Walking Opera is 1 hour, however maximum walking time is 30min. Please dress appropriately for the weather. Children, and people with walking disabilities are welcome, but please contact us for more details of the walk prior to attending. Ticket includes pub drink! Book here All events are part of Baltic Art Form 2018 festival |
