i lived for art
​a new play

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​I Lived for Art
A new play with opera by Philip Blake-Jones
Thursday 28 October, 2021
7.30pm
Banqueting Hall | The Guildhall​, Salisbury
£22 adult, £10 child 



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This year Celebrate Voice is breaking new ground by featuring a pioneering work for singers, actors and musicians.
I lived for Art – a play with opera by Philip Blake-Jones, combines a dramatic narrative with some of the greatest arias and ensembles from the operas of Purcell, Mozart, Beethoven, Verdi and Puccini. 
 
Set at the end of World War II in a Jewish holding ghetto, the inhabitants live with the constant threat of being transported on crowded trains to the ‘East’. We now know this meant almost certain death in a concentration camp. In an attempt to save their lives, singers and musicians are forced to perform for their captors. The play examines the power and mystery of music for the voice, telling a story of emotional and physical escape and retribution, during one of man’s blackest periods. 

Featuring an international cast of singers and professional actors, together with young people from the Wiltshire Youth Choir, this premiere performance will be an evening of passion, drama and sublime music.

 
Philip Blake-Jones has written and created performances combining music and words, including ‘A Passion for Puccini’ and ‘Viva Verdi’, for presentation at the Windsor Festival and theatres including the Buxton Opera House, Richmond Theatre, New Theatre Oxford and La Fenice in Venice. He is the Artistic Director of London Festival Opera.

Ed Allenby | Sacher
Josh Miller | Jakob
Gregory A Smith | Klieger
Liz Garland | Eva
Nick Danan | Anton
Philip Blake-Jones | Playwright
Sophie Drake | Director

​For singers, actors, youth choir and musicians.

Actors:
Jakob: (a musician) Josh Miller 
Klieger:  (Commandant of the ghetto) Gregory A Smith
Anton:  (an artist) Nick Danan
Sacher:  (leader of the Jewish Council in the ghetto) Ed Allenby
Eva:  (an aspiring opera singer) Liz Garland
 
Opera Singers:
Soprano Linda Richardson
Mezzo-Soprano Hannah Pedley
Tenor Adriano Graziani
Baritone David Stephenson
Pianist David Gostick
 
Featuring Wiltshire Youth Choir
 
Production:
Writer and Producer Philip Blake-Jones
Director Sophie Drake
Co-Producer Christian Emmerson


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Venue: The Guildhall, Salisbury,
SP1 1JH
​(tickets available online only)

Dates

20-29 October 2022

In Partnership with:
Salisbury City Council
​Salisbury Guildhall

Tickets

www.celebratevoice.co.uk
Principal Sponsors 2022:
TBC

Email

info@celebratevoice.co.uk  ​
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