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Tag: opera

20 March 2022 Traction / Uncategorized

Reflecting on ‘El Cabaret de la Gata’

A long journey needs resting points It is a surprise, in my sixties, to find myself working on opera, as

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17 March 2022 Traction / Uncategorized

‘Cabaret de la Gata’– Traction takes off

As the pandemic recedes—or perhaps becomes normalised—it is becoming hard to recall the strangeness of those lockdown months, and the

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6 March 2022 Traction

Building bridges

It’s just over two years since I met the people involved in the Traction co-creation opera projects, in Donostia, at

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10 December 2021 Traction

Without access, nothing is possible

For decades, longer even, cultural policy in Europe has been imagined as a conflict between two ideas. The first is

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5 October 2021 Traction / Uncategorized

Between Beckett and Homer: excellence in co-creation

There are moments in every good community art project when you watch, suspended between wonder and terror, as it takes

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18 July 2021 Traction

Still thinking about co-creation

In March, I posted a question on Twitter about co-creation.  What do artists mean by ‘co-creation’? I’m writing about the

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14 June 2021 Regular Marvels II / Traction / Uncategorized

Learning the right lessons

Ten days ago, at home in France, I watched a live stream of a performance happening in Portugal. Nós. Vocês. Toda

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6 June 2020 opera / Regular Marvels II / Traction / Uncategorized

Opera in a pandemic

When the Traction project was conceived, its broad aim of exploring how digital technology might reconnect opera with contemporary European

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1 May 2020 opera / Regular Marvels II / Traction / Uncategorized

Opera during lockdown

The public health measures taken to slow down the Covid-19 pandemic have had a devastating effect on millions of businesses

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9 March 2020 opera / Regular Marvels II / Traction / Uncategorized

Is opera exclusive?

For better or worse, opera sits at the symbolic summit of European culture. Those who love it see it as

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