English Touring Opera - Bridgetower: A Fable of 1807
- Composer:
- Julien Joseph and Mike Phillips
- Management:
- English Touring Opera
- Director:
- Helen Eastman
Production information can change over the run of the show.
The City of London Festival have taken a chance in commissioning an opera from jazz pianist Julian Joseph, and in many ways it hasn't paid off. The subject is interesting enough: George Bridgetower (1768-1860), virtuoso violinist and son of an ex-slave father. The opera follows the young Bridgetower as he is presented to the Prince of Wales and is taken under royal patronage. There's a distinct sound of the musicals as the scenario hovers around Bridgetower's love for the slave girl Mary Prince (the first black woman to publish a book in England), though the climax relates not to newfound love, but with a bicentennial nod to the 1807 Abolition of Slavery Act...
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