Penelope’s Web is a new opera in the making, by Cheryl Frances-Hoad, composer, and Jeanne Pansard-Besson, librettist/dramaturg and director.
https://www.penelopeswebtheopera.com/
> Upcoming workshops of newly written work, with support from Kings College London and the University of Oxford:
14-19th April 2024: workshop in Oxford. April 19th: work-in-progress performance ‘In Hades’ on April 19th at the Jacqueline du Pré Theatre, St Hilda’s College.
25-28th June 2024: workshop in Kings College London. June 28th: performance of ‘In Ithaka’ at the Greenwood Theatre.
Photographs: Richard Hubert Smith
Previous developments of Penelope’s Web:
‘Asphodel’ is an aria commissioned by the National Opera Studio, London. It had its online premiere on November 17th, 2020. With Samantha Oxborough (mezzo-soprano) and Juliane Gallant (piano).
https://www.nationaloperastudio.org.uk/1242-asphodel10th November 2021: workshop in TS Eliot theatre, Merton College, Oxford, 10th November 2021. With the support of the APGRD, Oxford.
Composer: Cheryl Frances-Hoad. Librettist/dramaturg/director: Jeanne Pansard-BessonJune 6-8th 2022: Workshop and performance at the Jacqueline du Pré Theatre, St Hilda’s College Oxford. With the support of TORCH and APGRD, Oxford. Cast: Samantha Oxborough and Karima El Demerdasch.
http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/about-us/programmes/artistic-collaborations-torch#queens
https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/the-alternative-queens-speech-work-in-progress
— Film: https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/the-alternative-queens-speech-an-opera-in-the-makingMarch 24th 2023: workshop at King’s College, London.
April 24th 2023: seminar at Keble College, Oxford.
