New College at the Tete a Tete: The Opera Festival 2022

A Coffin, A Confession, and A Cautionary Tale

Cockpit Theatre, London, 31 August 2022

New Chamber Opera will perform compositions by alumni Samuel Hogarth and Luke Smith in a triple bill of Dark Music Theatre at Tete a Tete: The Opera Festival 2022. New College Fellow Emeritus Craig Raine provides the text for the third work, and present members Karol Jozwik, Jamie Andrews and Dónal McCann perform.

Sam Hogarth and Luke Smith

All three pieces of Music Theatre were written for or first performed by New Chamber Opera, and all three are having their London premieres.


Last Things by Alasdair Nicolson/Craig Raine

  • Karol Jozwik, coutertenor
  • Dónal McCann, piano

The Evils of Tobacco by Samuel Hogarth/after Chekhov

  • William Purefoy, countertenor
  • James Andres, piano

The Organist's Confession by Luke Smith/Michael Burden

  • Lindsay Bramley, mezzo-soprano

Date: 31st August 3033

Time: 20:20 (for approximately one hour)

Venue: The Cockpit Theatre

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