TALES OF LOVE
Production Duration: 1hr 10 min
Video promo duration: 5 min
Date: 2002
Produced by Calculated Risks Opera Productions
Tales of Love has enjoyed many performances. The first version from 1990 was produced by Calculated Risks Opera Productions and co-devised by John Baylis, Nigel Kellaway, Annette Tesoriero and Richard Vella and premiered at the Performance Space Sydney. A following mounting of this production was staged at PICA in Perth.
The work was revised and repurposed for a 2002 production, Sydney. The production consisted of original music by Richard Vella and included leider by Arnold Schoenberg, Richard Wagner, and Robert Schumann, arias by Henry Purcell and Claudio Monteverdi, and songs by Edith Piaf, Eric Satie and Lucio Dalla.
The promotional video for the 2002 production of Tales of Love was filmed, directed and edited by Carla Thackrah. the video was performed and recorded at Riverside Theatre, Parramatta Sydney.
The video highlights various scenes, images and music from the 2002 production. Set & Costume design by Indira Shanahan; Lighting design by Neil Simpson; Directed by Richard Vella. Performers are Karen Cummings (Soprano), Didier Frederic (Baritone), The Seymour Group (Christine Draeger, fl; Margery Smith, cl; Alexandria D’Elia, vln; Peter Morrison, vc; Denise Papaluca, pf; Philip South, pc) and Mary McMenamin (host).