Faded Ink Productions

05/06/2017

We got a review! 'Electrifying' - 'a short, exciting opera, perfect for 21st Century attention spans' - 'Quite unlike anything else you'll see'

A new Opera about electric car company Tesla, ft. Elon Musk, Harry Potter, and polar bears.

30/05/2017

The AUTOPILOT SAVES MODEL S cast, band and creators!

27/05/2017

We had a great first performance last night, and looking forward to another tonight. Well done Marco Galvani and Leo Mercer on the WORLD PREMIERE of Autopilot Saves Model S! 9pm, Maths Institute.

26/05/2017

NB: For those buying tickets at the door, it will be cash only. And for those who have epilepsy, there are flashing images at one point.

26/05/2017

Tonight is the first ever performance of Autopilot Saves Model S! Listen to a sneak preview on BBC Oxford at 11:00am, feat. Marco Galvani discussing his composition and Rosalind Dobson and Susannah Hardwick singing a duet.

24/05/2017

The third person in our cast playing the part of Annalyn Kurtz ( ) is the wonderful Susannah Hardwick. She's going to the Royal College of Music next year to study singing, so catch a glimpse before she becomes famous:

Susannah is a London-based soprano and will study at Royal College of Music from September. She spent this year at Oxford University during which she was a choral scholar in the Choir of Merton Col…

23/05/2017

She's got the part. She's got the voice. She's got three names. Introducing Sofia Kirwan-Baez, playing the procrastinating Annalyn 3! (We tried to reach her for comment, but she was watching cat videos.)

Tickets are beginning to go fast: https://fadedinkproductions.ecwid.com/

Sofia is a second year music student. She received most of her musical education in Dordogne, France where she discovered and developed her passion for piano, but particularly for voice. Since her …

22/05/2017

Creating the role of Annalyn 2 (remember that character, she'll be famous), the wonderful, multi-talented, still-working-on-her-American-accent: Rosalind Dobson - Soprano!

(and her rl counterpart, Rosalind)

9pm, Friday and Saturday this week, Maths Institute!

Originally from Oxford, Rosalind graduated with an English degree from Magdalene college Cambridge in 2016. She is now in her first year at the Royal College of Music where she studies under Sally …

20/05/2017

The amazing Marco Galvani turns out to be really clever. The ELON tetrachord - read all about it!

www.fadedinkproductions.wordpress.com/2017/05/20/composing-autopilot-saves-model-s

by Marco Galvani The main challenge that I faced when composing this piece was finding a way to represent the disjointed nature of internet research through a unified musical language. I found that…

18/05/2017

Muskmania (n):

1. Madness caused by wearing too much perfume.

2. An obsession with the entrepeneur Elon Musk, and desire to write an opera about him.

Leo Mercer speaks:

by Leoe Mercer “Composers and writers can learn more about their art from Elon Musk than they can from most other composers and writers 😮” Autopilot Saves Model S questions the relentle…

16/05/2017

How to make an opera (assuming some music and some words exist): workshops! Rosalind Dobson shares her thoughts: http://wp.me/p6clym-5s

In March of this year we spent a few days in the Long Room at New College, workshopping a first draft of Marco and Leoe’s opera, finding out what worked and what didn’t. Rosalind Dobson…