MICROmegas

Conductor: Tom Floyd

Director: Anna Koukoullis
Designer: Cécile
Lighting Designer: Jamie Platt

Stage Manager: Amy Mcleen

Think Hitchhiker’s Guide meets Doctor Who meets Rosencrantz and Guildenstern…

Shadow Opera present the first act of Tom Floyd and David Spittle’s latest opera, MICROmegas. Based on Voltaire’s short story, it follows an exiled giant and a stammering dwarf on their trip across the universe in search of adventure and truth.

"Floyd's music, not unlike mid-period Britten, is written with a lyrical understanding of the human voice not always found in modern classical music."

ONE STOP ARTS, Roger Smith

ORIGINAL CAST:

Court Spectator/Cabin Boy/Monk 2: Alex Bevan
Micromegas/Pere Jules: Jan Capinski
Court Spectator/Cabin Boy/ Dwarf: Richard Downing
The Muffty/The Captain/Monk 3: Robert Garland
Drunk Girl 2/The Poet/ Monk 1: Sophie Goldrick
Drunk Girl 1/The Cartographer/Barbra: Emily Griffiths