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“Die Fledermaus starring Cole Porter”

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On The Beach 

@ The West Beach Pavillion,
330A Beaconsfield Parade, St Kilda

Saturday the 4th and Sunday March 5th, 2023
4PM showtime

Bookings: ​click here

Together at last – Porter and Strauss in this 90min cabaret opera fusion comedy!
A desperate housewife
A cheating husband
A sexy maid
A very ‘personal’ personal trainer
The manipulative best friend who invites them all to an A list party and is bent on getting revenge!
‘Now who is who and what is true”

Fast moving, frivolous and funny is our Fledermaus featuring our wonderful team of cut opera performers. Accompanied by the Cut Opera house combo and intimately performed outdoors under a marquis with panoramic views of St Kilda beach. The West Beach Pavilion offers great fish and chips and all your regular fair plus bar. Enjoy a cocktail with your opera tale!


This is opera fusion!!

Tickets: General $48, Concession $40, Under 25’s $25

 
Bookings: Book Here

Enquiries: Julie 0408 687 305, cutopera@gmail.com

“Alcina and the Witches of Bacharach” 

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 @ The Shaw Davey,
 171-175 Elgin Street, Carlton

Emotionworks Cut Opera is excited to present our latest creation: Handel’s opera Alcina, cut down to 90 mins and fuelled with the timeless hits of Burt Bacharach – a tribute to the genius of Handel and Bacharach! 

The Sorceress Alcina lures her prey to her funky island, the Shaw Davey Slum, seduces them and then turns them into wild beasts. Her latest victim, Ruggiero, is under her spell and Bradamante, his former lover, has come to rescue him. Will they overcome the power of Alcina?

An all star female Cut Opera cast in the baroque tradition of women playing women, women playing men and women playing women pretending to be men!! Get your head around that one!

Starring the beautiful Katy Turbitt as the evil not so beautiful Alcina, Jazz singer extraordinaire Annemarie Sharry as the deluded Ruggiero, powerhouse Kerry Frankland as the gender confused Bradamante, golden girl Rachael Findlay as the feral Oronte and “what’s new pussy cat” Maryanne Bird as the ditzy Morgana!

A wild, fun, rollicking ride is in store for you upstairs at the funky Shaw Davey with retractable roof if weather permits and offering a massive bar and great food options. Another wacky creative opera fusion outburst devised and directed by Julie Edwardson.


Gee we have fun and so will you – Hope to see you all there!


This is opera fusion!!


The Magic Flute and the Queens of Rock

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Emotionworks Cut Opera presents

The Magic Flute and the Queens of Rock

@ The Line,
 2 Yewers Street, Footscray

28/29 May and 4/5 June, 4pm

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This 90 minute fun-filled interpretation of Mozart’s masterpiece is fused with Freddie Mercury and Elton John classics. The story is adapted to a very familiar sci-fi world of light sabres, singing robots and the fight between good and evil. The post-industrial glam of The Line warehouse venue is the perfect backdrop.

Mozart’s Magic Flute embodies the archetypal tale of the young hero embarking on his quest to save the captive princess and the future of mankind. Remind you of anything? Hopefully the force will be with him!

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ECO Trilogy Concert Series II on St Kilda Beach

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ECO Trilogy Concert Series II

on St Kilda Beach @West Beach Pavillion

Sunday 24th April 2pm .

Tickets $45 General, $38 Conc, $25 Under 25’s

Booking Link: https://www.trybooking.com/BYQIQ

A concert of three mini versions of our favourites – “Hoffmann Ooh La La”, “La Beatles Boheme” and “Rigoletto and the Rockin Cowboys”.

An afternoon of fun opera fusion, great voices and great grooves to take away our post-covid blues. This will be an outdoor, Covid safe event, under a marquee, at the West Beach Pavilion, next to Catalina Gardens on St Kilda Beach.

Starring Jason Wasley, Katy Turbitt, Rachael Findlay, Kerry Frankland, Peter Hanway and accompanied by the Cut Opera House Combo.

The West Beach Pavilion kitchen offers yummy fish and chips, pizza, snack food and a licensed bar.

Stay tuned for a feast of Cut Operas in 2022 opening with “Magic Flute and the Queens of Rock” in late May. Bookings open soon.

Enquiries: Julie (cutopera@gmail.com, 0408 687 305)

Tix:  https://www.trybooking.com/BYQIQ

House Combo and Friends ‘CONCERT TRILOGY’

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EMOTIONWORKS CUT OPERA IS BACK!

OUTDOOR ECO
CONCERT TRILOGY

In the great outdoors
@ “Glenniola” 207 Ingliston-Settlement Rd, Ingliston

(bordering the Werribee Gorge State Park and just 1 hour from the Westgate).

Tickets $45 General, $35 Conc.

Booking Link https://www.trybooking.com/BVECT

A concert featuring a trilogy of mini versions of our old favourites – “Fledermaus starring Cole Porter”, “Tosca bound in Soul, Blues and R&B” and “Don Giovanni – let’s rock and roll”.

An afternoon of fun opera fusion, lockdown release and just singing together again.

Artists include Rachael Findlay, Michael Lampard, Wayne Cuebas, Katy Turbitt, Peter Hanway, Kerry Frankland, Richard Woods, Nigel Sharp, and of course Julie Edwardson

This will be an outdoor Covid safe event with amazing views, wildlife and a short bush-walk if desired. B.Y.O picnic food and beverages (tea, coffee and seating provided). Vaccination certificate will be required.  

Stay tuned for a feast of Cut Operas in 2022 opening with “Magic Flute and the Queens of Rock” in early February. Bookings open soon.

Enquiries: Julie (cutopera@gmail.com, 0408 687 305)

Tix:  https://www.trybooking.com/BVECT

Carmen – On the Beach – Melbourne March 2021

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“Carmen”

On the Beach

With a sexy mix of Latin, Jazz, Gospel and Blues

Outdoors @ Lifesaving Victoria Club
 200 The Blvd. Port Melbourne Foreshore

We’re back!!

Emotionworks Cut Opera returns with this outdoor, Covid Safe, new and revised version of our old favourite integrated with a stack of new popular jazz and blues songs and our usual mix of fun and games. In our version, Bizet’s popular opera Carmen is cut down, fast-moving, racy and foot tapping.

This is opera fusion!!

Showcasing great singing and dancing and starring the gorgeous Alison Lemoh as Carmen, Jason Wasley as Don Jose and featuring jazz singer Annemarie Sharry. Directed and devised by Julie Edwardson and accompanied by the Cut Opera House Combo and the Cut Opera Vox Ensemble.

Bar and food available (indoor option if inclement weather) and bring your dancing shoes!

Tickets: General $45, Concession $35, Under 25’s $25

Enquiries: Julie 0408 687 305, cutopera@gmail.com

BUSHFIRE APPEAL CONCERT

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Emotionworks Cut Opera combo and friends
bush fire appeal concert

Sunday March 1st, 2020
St Kilda Sports Club
5pm

Entry by Cash Donation
Make a reservation

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Come and hear your favourite cut opera singers and band and support the wildlife that has been so badly ravaged in the recent bushfires!
Launching our new concept of an informal variety concert presenting our favourite opera fusion highlights from all our shows and featuring the cut opera house combo with a stunning array of our top line singers.
5pm Sunday 1st March at the St Kilda sports club (lawn bowls) 66 Fitzroy St, St Kilda.
All artists and venue are donating their efforts and all proceeds will go the world wildlife fund – Australia (the Australian wildlife and nature recovery fund).
Entry by cash donation!
There is a limit to numbers so please email Julie@emotionworks.com or 0408 687 305 for reservation to ensure your entry.

MINYA BY MOONLIGHT

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For all our Bellerine friends, we are performing another Emotionworks Cut Opera combo and friends concert at

Minya Winery
Saturday 15th Feb at 7:30pm.

http://theminya.com.au/concerts/

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This concert will present highlights from 3 of our shows ‘Fledermaus starring Cole Porter’, ‘Tosca bound in soul, blues and R&B’  and ‘Don Giovanni lets rock and roll’. It will feature a running narrative of all 3 shows by the eloquent Peter Hanway and will star Rachael Findlay, Michael Lampard and Kerry Frankland and the cut opera house combo.

Tales of Hoffmann Ooh La La

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Tales of Hoffmann Ooh La La

A popular French inspired burlesque take on Offenbach’s famous tales of Hoffmann at the cabaret – this is opera fusion!

Our Hoffmann is slashed to 90 minutes and infused with French and French inspired popular songs in this Parisian Jazz Burlesque interpretation.

The story is about the loves of the poet Hoffmann’s life  – unlucky in love as he struggles with the forces of ‘good’ and ‘evil’, truth and deception, the angel and the demon. Not all is as it seems in this sophisticated, wacky and surreal French inspired production.

Devised and directed by award winning director Julie Edwardson and starring our usual array of top line opera and contemporary singers and accompanied by the Cut Opera house combo. Cast includes Hew Wagner (Hoffmann), Katy Turbitt (as Hoffmans lovers), Michael Lampard (Demon) and Kerry Frankland (the Angel Nicklaus).

Information contact Julie – 0408 687 305 or julie@emotionworks.com
Emotionworks Cut Opera encourages youth to see opera and ‘Live’ music.

 

Cosi Fan Tutti Frutti in Barwon Heads – June 30th, 2019

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Emotionworks Cut Opera is proud to present

“Cosi Fan Tutti Frutti”

IN BARWON HEADS

ECO BOOKING

Barwon Heads Community Hall
77 Hitchcock Avenue, Barwon Heads, Victoria 3227

Sunday  30th July at 5pm

Tickets: Click here for trybooking.com

Emotionworks Cut Opera condenses Mozart’s classic comedy opera and fuses it with 1950’s Rock and Roll in this swinging, action-packed, retro inspired production. This is opera fusion!

Hear the best hits from the 1950’s alongside Mozart’s beautiful arias and ensembles performed by an exceptional young cast of opera and contemporary singers. This is a trip down memory lane featuring songs by Elvis, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry to name a few and as we wind back the clock to the 1950’s you will also be entertained by some great swing dancers. Continue reading “Cosi Fan Tutti Frutti in Barwon Heads – June 30th, 2019” →