‘Dorian Gray’ and ‘Surveillance Suite’

September 8, 2009 · Posted in Dorian Gray, Surveillance Suite

Two trips coming up for two of my current projects: I’ll be travelling to Bratislava again to spend a few days working with Lubica Cekovska on our opera based on Oscar Wilde’s ‘Dorian Gray’. This is a fantastic project, completely new territory for me, and it is great to be working in Slovakia which is one of those new countries that is also very very old. I’ve done a few drafts of the libretto now and it is in decent enough shape for Lubica and I to spend time talking about it. She has already written a few bits and pieces of music for it, so I can’t wait to hear those, and to dwell in the world of Central European opera.

I’ll also be heading up to Ulverston to see James Coupe in order to work on our project, ‘Surveillance Suite’, in its first iteration for Folly at the Lanternhouse. I’ve been writing scripts for James to use in films along with the facial recognition software. This project is very exciting, hugely techy, and I’m looking forward to spending a bit of time in Ulverston, near Morecambe Bay.