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Sex Worker's Opera: Music Development towards Filming and International Run
*Sex Worker’s Opera*
“What every great opera should do” – Royal Opera House
“One of the most important pieces of theatre you’ll see this year” – The Independent
A street worker giving marital advice…
A webcam model and her ventriloquist dummy…
A daughter making career choices in a male-dominated world…
Whether you want to save us, judge us, lust for us or relate, enter a night of opera to hip-hopera, contemporary dance to pole dance, where sex workers take back the stage to tell our own stories in our own words.
Created and performed by sex workers and friends, Sex Workers’ Opera offers an unflinchingly honest, upliftingly human insight into the lives of sex workers locally and around the world.
*2018*
This year musical director Alex Etchart fully scores and develops the piece that has been devised over 4 years with the London-based group and submissions from 17 different countries. Our beloved original cast goes out with a bang with international performances, professional live filming, UK-wide outreach workshops and laying the groundwork for an album at long last!
*Alex Etchart*
Alex is an Anglo-Uruguayan multi-instrumentalist songwriter with a background in South American folklore, jazz improvisation and classical harmony. Trained in Community Music at Goldsmiths under Phil Mullen and Graham Dowdall, Alex has written for/with community campaigns for 7 years. 2018 will see Etchart co-facilitate the all-new Fire Choir at the Foundling Museum, the latest project by Sam Lee of the Nest Collective, bringing choirs back to the front-line for change.
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