Breakdance Opera Miss Fortune - BBoy interview for Royal Opera House
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Date: 2012-03-09

Breakdance Opera Miss Fortune takes a roller-coaster ride through life in the company of fate. 

Leading British opera composer Judith Weir transposes the Sicilian folktale Misfortune to today as the daughter of a rich family turns her back on wealth to make her own way in the world -- too often with unfortunate results. Not many operas combine great music with breakdancing and a burning kebab van, but Miss Fortune does all this and more under the direction of Chen Shi-Zheng (his spectacular staging of Monkey: Journey to the West was presented at the Royal Opera House in 2008). 

This new, approachable and engaging opera had its premiere at the Bregenz Festival in summer 2011 and now comes to the Royal Opera stage with the same acclaimed cast -- Emma Bell sings the title role and former Jette Parker Young Artist singer Jacques Imbrailo plays her eventual love Simon. Paul Daniel conducts this effective and atmospheric score in a visually beautiful and inventive production whose story is funny, touching, moral and contemporary. 

Miss Fortune continues the series of high-profile new works of recent years that have included Anna Nicole, The Tempest and The Minotaur. With the added impact of the world-class Royal Opera Chorus Judith Weir's Miss Fortune is a highlight of this Royal Opera Season.


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Miss Fortune

The Royal Opera

12 March 2012 to 28 March 2012 (Calendar)
Main Stage

Running time: 2 hours | 1 interval

Sung in English with surtitles

Generously supported by
Peter Moores Foundation 
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Background

The UK premiere of a new opera takes a roller-coaster ride through life in the company of fate. Leading British opera composer Judith Weir transposes the Sicilian folktale Misfortune to today as the daughter of a rich family turns her back on wealth to make her own way in the world -- too often with unfortunate results. Not many operas combine great music with breakdancing and a burning kebab van, but Miss Fortune does all this and more under the direction of Chen Shi-Zheng (his spectacular staging of Monkey: Journey to the West was presented at the Royal Opera House in 2008). This new, approachable and engaging opera had its premiere at the Bregenz Festival in summer 2011 and now comes to the Royal Opera stage with the same acclaimed cast -- Emma Bell sings the title role and former Jette Parker Young Artist singer Jacques Imbrailo plays her eventual love Simon. Paul Daniel conducts this effective and atmospheric score in a visually beautiful and inventive production whose story is funny, touching, moral and contemporary. Miss Fortune continues the series of high-profile new works of recent years that have included Anna Nicole, The Tempest and The Minotaur. With the added impact of the world-class Royal Opera Chorus Judith Weir's Miss Fortune is a highlight of this Royal Opera Season.
Credits

Composer and librettist
Judith Weir

Director
Chen Shi-Zheng

Set design
Tom Pye

Costume design
Han Feng

Video design
Leigh Sachwitz

Movement
Ran Arthur Braun

Performers
Casting is subject to alteration.

Conductor
Paul Daniel

Tina (Miss Fortune)
Emma Bell

Lord Fortune
Alan Ewing

Lady Fortune
Kathryn Harries

Fate
Andrew Watts

Hassan
Noah Stewart

Donna
Anne-Marie Owens

Simon
Jacques Imbrailo

Chorus
Royal Opera Chorus

Breakdancers
Soul Mavericks

Orchestra
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House