
Talk
How does a new opera take flight?
Edward Hughes and I Fagiolini · Gresham College
About
Edward Hughes and artists from The Opera Group and I Fagiolini. The creative team behind The Birds gave an entertaining introduction to developing an opera for the City London Festival - from the initial draft to the singers' struggle to learn the music. Composer Ed Hughes and artists from The Opera Group and I Fagiolini offered tantalising excerpts from their new work.
The talk
Credits and licence
- Institution
- Gresham College
- Taught by
- Edward Hughes, I Fagiolini
- Year
- 2005
- Level
- For everyone
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Music
- Source
- Gresham College
- Licence
- Educational use (Gresham College's terms), as Gresham College states it. Gresham College's terms
- Attribution
- Gresham College states: "We positively encourage the use of the Gresham College lecture transcripts, audio and video files for educational purposes. However, we do not allow use of Gresham College materials for commercial, personal or institutional gain."
- Who can watch
- Gresham College gives no rating. Invisible Network shows it to Tweens profiles and older, judged from what the source says about it. How courses are placed
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