OperaGlass Works
@OperaglassWorks
"OperaGlass Works is likely to change the way we appreciate opera forever" - Arts Industry. Created by Selina Cadell and Eliza Thompson.
“Absorbing and intimate. An impressive sweeping performance. ★★★★” - The Telegraph. @eddieizzard's Hamlet, directed by OperaGlass Works' Selina Cadell, with music by OGW's Eliza Thompson, is to tour the UK from September. Details here 👉 eddieizzardhamlet.com
"Now the label 'elitist', which has dogged the art form, has a chance to reinvent itself. Music is not elitist. It speaks to something way beyond the brain, and, hence, must be offered freely without constraint" - OperaGlass Works' co-founder Selina Cadell, writing for Arts Desk.
Find out more about OperaGlass Works and the projects we have brought to the stage and screen, via our website here: operaglassworks.com
In 2020 OperaGlass Works was about to stage Turn of the Screw at Wilton's Music Hall when Covid hit. The team had an emergency rethink, resulting in a stunning film which went on to win a Critics' Circle Award for Best Opera Film. Watch it now via @MarqueeArtsTV.
🎬 Get a flavour of OperaGlass Works' La Traviata with our trailer 👇 📺 youtube.com/watch?v=b8KOVZ…
After its sold-out UK premiere at ActOne Cinema in west London, OperaGlass Works' La Traviata returns for one final W3 screening at 2.30pm on Sunday.
Tomorrow! Catch a 'big screen' showing of OperaGlass Works La Traviata at Wells Maltings, followed by a Q&A with OperaGlass Works's founders Selina Cadell and Eliza Thompson, who produced and directed the film. 7pm at Wells Maltings Screen next the Sea at Wells-Next-the-Sea.
Presented by Wells Maltings and Screen next the Sea. Verdi's La Traviata, one of the best-known operas in the repertoire brought to the screen by OperaGlass Works. Produced and directed by Selina Cadell and Eliza Thompson, who will be in conversation after the film in a Q&A.
ConductorJohn Wilson discusses how OperaGlass Works' brought Benjamin Britten’s Turn of The Screw to life as a film, after the 2020 lockdown forced the production off the stage of @WiltonMusicHall. 📻 A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4 - listen here: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
OperaGlass Works' co-founder Selina Cadell on her approach to working with singers.
📽️ Screen next the Sea, Wells-next-the-Sea, 7pm, July 9 🎫 wellsmaltings.org.uk/events/operagl… 📽️ ActOne cinema, West London, 2.30pm, July 13 🎫👇 actonecinema.co.uk/movie/la-travi…
The next 'big screen' showing of La Traviata will be at Wells Maltings on Wednesday, July 9. Details here: wellsmaltings.org.uk/events/operagl…
Find out more about OperaGlass Works and our previous projects here: operaglassworks.com
Rehearsals for La Traviata were hard work, but a joyfully creative process!
Come and see La Traviata on the big screen at Wells Maltings on July 9, and at the ActOne Cinema in west London on July 12.
Intimate, powerful and moving, this version of La Traviata is a beautiful story of love and of loss as you have never experienced it... See La Traviata on the big screen at ActOne Cinema in Ealing on July 12! Tickets here 👇 actonecinema.co.uk/movie/la-travi…
"Our singers rehearse as actors for a long, long time, and we encourage them to use the lens to sing directly into" - Selina Cadell. Hear OperaGlass Works' founders Eliza Thompson and Selina Cadell discuss their approach to filming opera here: operaglassworks.com/la-traviata
OperaGlass Works' co-founder Selina Cadell on OGW's approach to bringing opera to new audiences.
OperaGlass Works' reimagining of Verdi’s opera, La Traviata, is back at ActOne Cinema in Ealing on July 12. 📽️ Grab this chance to see La Traviata on the big screen! Booking is open now: actonecinema.co.uk/movie/la-travi…
"Eliza’s eye for text and on unpicking the structure is excellent. The narrative of an opera is fully and exquisitely formed… and yet often it’s completely ignored or reinterpreted" - Selina Cadell on the skills of music expert and OperaGlass Works' co-founder Eliza Thompson
