Maya Sapone


JUNE 2010 VOCAL MOTIONS ELASTIC THEATRE PREMIERING “BAROCCATA, A DANCE-OPERA” at the Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2010, Riverside Studios Vocal Motions Elastic Theatre embarks on a journey through Baroque ideas about the body. Inspired by seventeenth century art and science, this dance-opera takes the audience into a weird and wonderful world of body contradictions: from sacred to secular, from anatomical to voyeuristic, from scientific to superstitious. At times bizarrely comic, at times dark and mysterious or poetic and moving, the piece features Vocal Motions Elastic Theatre’s trademark staging style: boldly stark, visually striking and highly atmospheric. The original score, created through improvisation methodologies, will integrate the use of toy pianos, in an exclusive collaboration with Kate Ryder, internationally acclaimed specialist in this unusual instrument. BAROCCATA will be launched, in a unique live installation version, at the opening of a contemporary art exhibition organised by The Facility and Islington Exhibits at the Graduate Centre, London Metropolitan University on FRIDAY 25th JUNE 2010. The fully staged production will premiere at the Riverside Studios on SATURDAY 14th and SUNDAY 15th AUGUST 2010, as part of the acclaimed Tête à Tête Opera Festival. Bookings open from Monday 14th June. Box Office: 020 8237 1111. Date: Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th August 2010 Venue: Riverside Studios, Crisp Road, London W6 9RL Please click here for more information
MARCH 2010 NOA – NEW OPERA ACTION, IMPROVISATIONAL MUSICAL THEATRE WORKSHOP The 3rd Contemporary Opera Festival NOA (New Opera Action) which takes place on 28th of March invites You to the workshop `Improvisational Musical Theatre` in Arts Printing House, dedicated to the artists of contemporary opera and musical theatre. This workshop is organized together with the company from Great Britain Vocal Motions Elastic Theatre, which establishers Jacek Ludwig Scarso and Maya Sapone are the guest teachers in the workshop and who will familiarize the participants with the principles and situations of improvisational opera. The trainings of the duration of five hours will include the variety of exercises, the testing of singing techniques, vocal improvisations and experiments and the art of acting. Here, the scenes of musical theatre will be created spontaneously, providing only the fragments of scenario by the participants previously. The opera soloists and choristers are invited to participate as well as all the artists who are interested in theatrics: singing actors, the practitioners of the art of improvisation and other enthusiasts. Venue: Arts Printing House, Vilnius, Lithuania Please click here for more information
TIME OUT LONDON recommended Classical Music Concert Young Iberian specialists, the soprano Maya Sapone, guitarist Morgan Szymanski and pianist Helen Glaisher-Hernández, present Spanish and Latin American classical music. Federico Mompou's 'Charmes'; Heitor Villa-Lobos's 'Forest of the Amazon'; 'Bachianas Brasileiras No 5'; JoaquÌn Rodrigo's Tres Canciones Españolas; Alberto Ginastera's 'Canción al árbol del Olvido'; Antonio Lauro's Venezuelan Waltzes (selection); and AgustÌn Barrios's 'Una limosna por el amor de Dios'. Venue: Schott Recital Room, 48 Great Marlborough Street, Mayfair, W1F 7BB Please click here for more information
AUGUST 2009 “MEDOUSA, a miniature opera” by VOCAL MOTIONS ELASTIC THEATRE “Fabulously hot-blooded performance“ - The Times Opera meets dance-theatre in this visually striking adaptation of the ancient myth of MEDOUSA directed by Jacek Ludwig Scarso and premiered at Tête a Tête - The Opera Festival 2009, Riverside Studios, with soprano Maya Sapone in the title role, Fernando Balsera Pita as Perseus, cellist Carina Drury and flutist Eva Caballero. Listed as one of the Festival’s Highlights in Time Out, the original score for MEDOUSA has been created through a collaborative process based on Maya Sapone’s vocal improvisations and supervised by composer and conductor Andrew Morley on a new libretto by Jacek Ludwig Scarso Venue: Riverside Studios, Crisp Road, London W6 9RL Please click here for more information