Canticle Rehearsals

So this is a busy week - when is it ever not - rehearsing the Canticles for our Little Angel show, getting together the video together for last week's extract of Cocteau in the Underworld at the Royal Opera House (it's going to be used in a lecture on technology in opera or some such) and a million and one meetings for Otieno. Excitingly we're having a read-through of Otieno this afternoon - not that we have a full cast yet, but it will be great to hear the thing read aloud, even if not by the same actors who'll actually be in it. And our stage manager's been out this morning raiding a major props store for Otieno.

Prima donna

A quick update from behind my production desk - we all work as freelancers too, so as well as working on Otieno I'm also designing video projections for Prima Donna at Sadlers Wells this week.
It's a new opera by Rufus Wainwright, directed by Tim Albery, which premiered at the Manchester International Festival last summer.