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Live Painting for Glass Handel

A BBC Proms and Visionaire production at Printworks, London

The BBC Proms at Printworks:
An opera5c spectacle featuring dance, art, film, and fashion

3 September, London 

3pm Matinee and 8pm Evening show

 

The BBC Proms are delighted to announce details for the Proms and the ENO at Printworks London: Glass Handel, which takes place on Saturday 3 September and marks the first ;me that the BBC Proms have staged a concert in a nightclub.

Created and co-produced by Grammy-award winning countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, Cath BriHan, Visionaire and the English Na5onal Opera in collabora;on with Printworks London, Glass Handel combines music by Handel and Philip Glass to create a unique opera;c experience featuring dance, live pain;ng, fashion, film and soundscapes.

 

The crea;ves involved include:

  • Philip Glass who will present the world premiere of a new work, No More, You Pe2y Spirits;

  • Karen Kamensek who will conduct;

  • Nature beatboxer Jason Singh, who will provide soundscapes reflec;ng sounds local to Printworks;

  • Bri;sh Ar;st Glenn Brown, CBE, who will live paint during the performance;

  • Jus5n Peck, the Tony award-winning choreographer and Resident Choreographer with the

    New York City Ballet;

  • Fashion designer Raf Simons, who will design the costumes;

  • Opera music videos by James Ivory & Pix Talarico, Daniel Askill, Mark Romanek, Rupert Sanders; the duo behind Toiletpaper Magazine Maurizio CaHelan & Pierpaolo Ferrari; Tilda Swinton & Sandro Kopp; painter Mickalene Thomas; mul;-disciplinary collec;ve AES+F; James Kaliardos & Marisa Tomei; and a new video by ar;st Jacolby SaHerwhite which will accompany the live recording of the Glass premiere.

September 3, 2022