Music Theatre Wales: The Open Fund for Organisations

Tour of Stuart MacRae’s The Devil Inside

Music Theatre Wales is the national contemporary opera company for the UK. By commissioning outstanding composers and writers, developing the opera creators of the future and presenting works by the world’s most important contemporary composers, we deliver exciting new opera to audiences across Wales, the UK and internationally.

The Devil Inside follows the outstanding success of Ghost Patrol, the previous opera written for Music Theatre Wales by composer Stuart MacRae and renowned novelist Louise Welsh. Winner of the South Bank Sky Arts Award and nominated for an Olivier, The Financial Times said ‘…it does everything modern opera is supposed to do: it asks questions, stirs the imagination, challenges complacency, grabs the heart. You come out feeling different – about love, life and death.’

The Devil Inside is a gritty, glittery, Faustian folktale, set firmly in the twenty-first century. Inspired by The Bottle Imp, a short story by Robert Louis Stevenson, this brand new opera echoes his most famous tale, The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Two friends stumble upon a bottle that will change their lives, a bottle that can grant any wish. But there’s a catch and the bottle demands a payment. Will the pair find their happy-ever-after or will the bottle be their undoing?

Performances in London, Cardiff, Manchester, Birmingham, Basingstoke, Huddersfield, Aberystwyth and Mold February-April 2016.

See www.musictheatrewales.org.uk for full details. This is a co-commission and co-production with Scottish Opera.

Socials:

Tweets by MTW_tweets
https://www.facebook.com/musictheatrewales
https://www.youtube.com/user/musictheatrewales