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Alasdair Middleton

ALASDAIR MIDDLETON

  
Nationality:    British
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Alasdair Middleton's work as a librettist includes 'the World was all Before them' and 'On London Fields' (winner of a Royal Philharmonic Award 2005) both for Matthew King, and 'the Hackney Chronicles' and 'On Spital Fields' (winner of a Royal Philharmonic Award 2006) both for Jonathan Dove.

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below is a list of Alasdair Middleton's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Aeschylean Nasty         Enchanted Pig, The         Swanhunter

Aeschylean Nasty

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1st Produced:
BAC , London >>>     1990

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Enchanted Pig, The

Synopsis:
King Hildebrand is off to war - again. He commands his three daughters not to enter a locked room in the palace. Naturally they do, and in it find the Book of Fate, which announces that two of them will marry handsome Kings, while the third, Flora, must wed a fat pig from the North. Drawing on Romanian and Norwegian folk tales with their origins in the myth of Cupid and Psyche, Alasdair Middleton weaves a fantastic musical story from traditional materials and takes us from palace to pigsty via the darkest corners of the universe in search of Flora's destiny. Funny and tender, miraculous and ridiculous, the Enchanted Pig moves heaven and earth for the sake of love and proves that even the best of men can be pigs. Some of the time.

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Music by Jonathan Dove, Words by Alasdair Middleton

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the Opera Grou[

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Genre:
Opera with Music Musical

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  9            Other:  -

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Swanhunter

Synopsis:
An energetically enticing tale based on Finnish mythology. Against his mother's wishes, the determined hero Lemminkainen travels North to find a bride. Along the way he is met by challenges and quests that will delight and enthral audiences and show that a mother's love conquers all, even death.

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Original production Howard Assembly Room, Leeds, 13 Nov 09. The new production is with The Wrong Crowd. Music Jonathan Dove. Lyrics Alasdair Middleton

1st Produced:
London: Royal Opera House     02 Apr 2015

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Wrong Crowd

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Genre:
operetta

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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