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27 August 2021
New UK opera company to launch in
November with dementia-friendly
performances
Theatre of Sound, a new opera company, has been created by conductor and
musical director, Stephen Higgins and the writer and director Daisy Evans.
The two have collaborated in the past with many of the top opera companies in the UK
and wanted to offer ‘new and exciting ways to present opera in a more accessible and
modern way. Theatre of Sound will launch in November with a unique re-telling of
Bartok’s classic Bluebeard’s Castle, in an English translation by Evans that turns the
gothic horror about an abusive relationship into a love story between a married couple
learning to live with dementia.
The production will be the first full theatrical opera presentation at the Stone Nest in
London’s Soho. With the London Sinfonietta, soprano Susan Bullock, bass-baritone
Gerald Finley, baritone Michael Mayes and soprano Gweneth Ann Rand will share the
roles of Duke Bluebeard and Judith. Daisy Evans will also direct.
She said, ‘Bluebeard’s Castle is one of my all-time favourite operas, and I always
understood Bluebeard’s music was filled with intense love and devotion. I want to tell
