Rough for Opera #20 – ADAPTATION
3.30 pm and 7.30 pm, 4th December 2025
Chelsea Theatre, 7 World’s End Place, Chelsea, London, SW10 ODR
Box Office Tickets £10 full price and £8 concession
Chelsea Theatre is fully accessible
relaxed and captioned performances
A work in progress sharing of three new 9 minute operas commissioned by Second Movement, each adapted from a single source, Note 615 on “The Scream” by Edvard Munch, English translation by Eirill Alvilde Falck. Note 615 (1892) is Munch’s first articulation, in text, of the image which would become the paintings, drawings and lithographs of The Scream, one of the world’s most recognised motifs. The operas explore themes of alienation, anxiety, displacement, grief and loss, written for a shared cast of baritone, mezzo, soprano, bassoon, cello and violin.
Exposure
Nicola Warner text
Zhenyan Li music
Another Day
Sarah Forbes text
Elif Karlıdağ music
Maelstrom
Romanne Walker text
Vinicius Motta music
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Adapted from Notes on “The Scream” by Edvard Munch
English translation of Note 615 on “The Scream” by Edvard Munch by Eirill Alvilde Falck
Elif Karlıdağ in rehearsal for Rough for Opera #20 (credit Craig Fuller)
Rough for Opera is Second Movement’s platform for new opera and work in development. The first Rough for Opera was in October 2011. Since then it has platformed more than 40 new operas and operas in development. Each Rough for Opera is programmed from an open call, from 2022 Rough for Opera has particularly focused on supporting new work by disabled artists. Second Movement uses an inclusive definition of disability based on the social model.
more information at www.roughforopera.com
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