Can Beast save Beauty from the Seven Deadly Sins?
Magic Mirror promises “true love” within 7 dates. Beast (part man, part toad) is one of the magic mirror system operators and is paired with his new client Beauty to find her true love. She goes on 7 virtual dates arranged by Magic Mirror Systems, each possessing one of the 7 Deadly Sins. Obviously, the dates go terribly in many different ways, and through the story we see Beauty and The Beast falling in love. Will he be able to declare his love to her before time runs out?
Our next commission, which will be collaboratively written by seven composers and seven librettists, has been shortlisted for a Fedora Opera Prize.
You can help us get to the next phase by voting for our project until February 26th. Thank you!
We commission new and exciting opera from up-and-coming composers, that we create with a new generation of talent in site-specific productions in unusual venues.
Since our debut with Snow in 2017 we have also combined the stories of Goldilocks and The Three Little Pigs and retold the story of Robin Hood.
Our fourth opera, Pandora’s Box, was postponed due to the pandemic, but we kept creating, and the resulting Episodes won an RPS Inspiration Award that celebrates work created during lockdown.
2021 will be our fifth season, and the most exciting yet, with two operas, a new song cycle and an operatic illustrated audiobook: stay tuned!
Henrietta is deputy editor of Opera magazine and is a writer, editor, producer and late-onset mezzo-soprano. She has published articles in The Spectator, The Guardian and The Telegraph, in theatre and opera programmes, and has devised narrated song recitals that have been performed at festivals throughout the UK.
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