Robin Norton-Hale presents ‘OperaUpClose’
Robin is an Olivier Award-winning director of OperaUpClose: an evolution in the artform that takes opera out of large auditoria into small, intimate venues, bringing audiences far closer to the experience. She is responsible for directing and writing the new librettos for La Bohème, Barber of Seville and Don Giovanni. Her introduction was followed by an excerpt from the 2011 Olivier Award-winning production of La Bohème (Anthony Flaum playing Rodolfo, Elinor Jane Moran playing Mimi with Elspeth Wilkes playing the piano)....
read moreM@ Brown: In Search of Secret London
M@ is Editor of Londonist, a website about London and everything that happens in it. He’s a self confessed London obsessive, reaching parts of the capital others can’t reach. In this entertaining and insightful talk he gives us unique access to some of London’s most secretive sites: from the great to the downright gory. A must see for all London lovers. (sound quality affected)
read moreMad as a March Lecture.
While Shepherd’s Bush market was bathing in the first signs of the British sunshine…an old music hall was busy being transformed, ready for the return of The Lost Lectures. The space, soon to be a Victorian carnival of curiosities would serve as the canvas for our next instalment of enchanting talks from secret locations: we were so pleased to be back! As the doors opened on the first night, guests were greeted by a collection of Victorian artefacts, eccentricities and artworks that lined the public spaces of the...
read moreThe Lost Launch.
We did it! The Lost Lectures launched with a bang on January 18th and 19th in a top secret location under one of London’s main arteries, with great ideas flying here there and everywhere. A huge thanks to all our wonderful speakers who gave some stunning performances…rather than wax lyrical, we thought we’d let their presentations do the talking , so expect some scintillating content coming your way over the next few weeks. But in the meantime a massive thanks to all those who followed the glowsticks and found us: it was an incredible...
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