Cocteau In The Underworld

Scenes from Ed Hughes' forthcoming opera Cocteau In The Underworld, librettist Roger Morris, will be performed at the Brighton Festival on Monday 4 May 2009 at 9pm in the Pavilion Theatre.

The opera is inspired by an imagined incident in the life of poet and film-maker Jean Cocteau. Cocteau dreams of the Underworld in order to recover a former lover from the Dead. Here he meets characters from his past and from his imagination. He is faced with a choice between love or creativity. Book Now: http://www.brightonfestival.org/event_details.aspx?eid=3139 Blog: http://edhughescomposer.blogspot.com/ With Owen Gilhooly (baritone) as Cocteau [Finalist, BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2007] and Jacqueline Varsey (soprano), Hannah Pedley (mezzo), Richard Scott (counter-tenor), Andrew Mackenzie-Wicks (tenor). Directed by John Lloyd Davies Conducted by David Angus Supported by OperaGenesis, an ROH2 initiative developed in association with the Genesis Foundation.