Bridlington Community Opera to go Ahead as Planned

Bridlington Community Opera to go Ahead as Planned

BRIDLINGTON, England, July 7, 2011/PRNewswire/ --

Opera North today announces that the community opera, Beached, by Harvey
Brough to a text by Lee Hall, is continuing as planned.

We have been at pains to work closely with the writers at all times, and
have supported their rights of artistic expression throughout. We have also
worked equally hard to ensure that the schools and community groups involved
in the project have positive feelings of ownership and identity within the
production. Thankfully rehearsals have been taking place throughout the
week.

We have been able to keep this project on track thanks to intense
negotiations behind the scenes with all parties.

We are delighted that we can now move forward to perform the piece next
week; over 400 participants from Bay Primary School and the community groups
established as part of the residency have been working and rehearsing very
hard and are extremely enthusiastic about the project.

At its core, Beached is not simply about sexuality, it is much more
about the life and community of Bridlington, and other similar towns and
communities in the UK. It is fiction, but it speaks directly, and often with
humour, about the experiences of the community, its joys and its tensions.

Opera North has a highly regarded track record for commissioning new
work for young people and community groups; Beached was commissioned for the
young people and communities in Bridlington and the choice of writers was in
itself a bold step to create an exciting and visionary work.

The result is a superb, inspirational and ground breaking new community
opera. We have enormous admiration for Harvey's and Lee's work, which we
believe will prove a fitting culmination to Opera North's Bridlington
residency.

Our two year residency in Bridlington has celebrated the joys of singing
and performing and we hope that it will be an inspirational experience for
participants and audiences alike.

Beached will be performed on Saturday 16th July at 2.00pm and 6.00pm

Royal Hall, The Spa, Bridlington Box Office: +44(0)1262-678258

Source: Opera North

For further information please contact:
Lindsey Porter, Press & PR Manager, lindsey.porter@operanorth.co.uk +44(0)113-223-3526

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