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Original Features
Music by Julian Grant
Libretto by Christina Jones
It is 1920. Two brilliant young artists raise their seven children in a faded Georgian townhouse. When the depression hits they are forced to seek their fortune in America. The children are left in the silent and lifeless home under the austere care of sinister distant cousins who drain all colour from the house and engineer its demolition. Will they survive the terrifying regime? Will the house be saved from destruction? Will light return to the hallways and laughter echo once more on the stairs?
W11 Opera’s 40th Anniversary commission, Original Features, is composed by Julian Grant with a libretto by Christina Jones, the creators of the highly successful 2007 opera Shadowtracks. This heart-warming and poignant family story celebrates creativity, music and colour with a host of characters and evokes a period of extraordinary cultural change.
Running time approximately 70 minutes
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Listen to Julian Grant and Christina Jones discussing Original Features by clicking here.
