A N D R E W P O P P Y
S H I N Y F L O O R S H I N Y C E I L I N G
an opera entertainment for voices, performer and dancer
9 songs in search of a territory
7 voices in search of a song
U n c o n f i r m e d G h o s t s & P e s s o a s
Claudia Brucken as The Angel of Only
James Gilchrist as The Man of Red Dust
Bernardo Devlin as Henry Fortune The Lucky Horse
Margaret Cameron as Persephone: Myth and Marionette
Guillermo Rosenthuler as Stepanov The Notator of Dances
Lula Pena as The Seamstress of The Corridor
Simon Vincenzi as The Ghost of Rilke: Man on a Mountain
Azusa Ono as The Dancer of Recnad Echoes
Julia Bardsley as A Beam of Light
Andrew Poppy as The Wave
Concept, music, text and music production by Andrew Poppy
Video projections and staging by Julia Bardsley
Lighting design by Marty Langthorne
Sound by Nik Kennedy
The staging of the musical voice has been a continuing thread in Andrew Poppy’s work. His new project is for six singers with himself as narrator/DJ/MC in a Club of Ghosts.
Using different modes of performance the piece grows from a feeling: the purgatory of premonition. And! What will happen next…
Best know for his albums for ZTT Records such as The Beating of Wings, Poppy has a unique body of work. This includes Chamber Operas for The Royal Opera House and The National Theatre and experimental approaches to musically driven theatre made with the seminal Impact Theatre Co-op.
The new project is trans genre and draws on his long term creative partnership with Julia Bardsley as well as collaborations with Claudia Brucken, James Gilchrist and the Portuguese singer Bernado Devlin. Shiny Floor Shiny Ceiling attempts a negotiation between Electro Pop, Classical Lieder and contemporary Fado.