Fuck Forever, video from Tete-a-Tete festival
26 August 2011 - Uncategorised
Fuck forever from Philip Venables on Vimeo.
My 3-minute Six Word Opera was premiered last week (11th and 12th August) at Riverside Studios in London, as part of the Tête-à-Tête Opera Festival. It was performed by the wonderful John Savournin (speaker/singer), James Young (piano and MD), Rosalind Acton (cello) and Matthew West (woodblock). Check out this video of one of the performances.
James Young asked me to write one for the second year of the successful Six Word Opera project. As almost all of my recent pieces have involved spoken word in concert music (I —- the body electric, numbers 91-95, numbers 76-80 : tristan und isolde, The Schmürz all in the last 12 months), this seemed a great way to try out some ideas. Also a good testing ground for the project that I am working on with Jorge Balça and Omar Ebrahim which is also a mini-opera, semi-staged, with themes of sex, sexuality and violence.
[…] Fuck Forever is an experiment in spoken word, first performed as part of Tête-à-Tête Opera Festival’s Six Word Opera Project. […]