Philip Venables

  • 4.48 Psychosis

    Duration: 90 minutes. For six singers (3 Soprano 3 Mezzo-soprano) and 12 instrumentalists with sound and video. An award-winning 90-minute chamber opera based on Sarah Kane’s searing final play of the same name, first produced by the Royal Opera Covent Garden

  • Bound to Hurt

    Duration: 75 minutes. For female voice and quintet (flute, clarinet, harp, percussion, piano, viola). A chamber music theatre piece that reflects on pop songs about domestic violence, devised with artist Douglas Gordon, singer Ruth Rosenfeld, dramaturg Laura Berman and Ensemble Adapter.

  • Denis & Katya

    Duration: 65 minutes. For Mezzo-soprano, Baritone, four cellists, sound and video. An award-winning chamber opera with text by Ted Huffman based on a tragic true story about two Russian runaway teenagers, examining at the internet culture of voyeurism and trolling.

  • The Faggots and their Friends Between Revolutions

    Duration: 95 minutes. For a multi-skilled ensemble cast of flexible size. A virtuosic and entertaining music theatre piece based on the book of the same name by Larry Mitchell and Ned Asta, with text by Ted Huffman. The cabaret- and baroque-influenced show tells fantastic parables that form a kind of political manifesto for a queer future.

  • We Are The Lucky Ones

    Duration: 100 minutes. For a cast of eight performers and symphony orchestra (double wind). A song and dance about life and death: an opera that tells the life story of a special post-war generation, based on interviews with 80 people born all across Europe in the 1940s.