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Piccard in Space

with the BBC Concert Orchestra

Thursday 31 March 2011, 7.30pm

Queen Elizabeth Hall (South Bank Centre), South Bank Centre Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX

Will Gregory's
Piccard in Space
The world premiere of a spectacular operatic balloon adventure

Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall
Thursday 31 March & Friday 1 April, 7.30pm

Composer Will Gregory
Libretto Hattie Naylor
Video Design Kathy Hinde
Director Jude Kelly
Conductor Charles Hazlewood

Will Gregory Moog Ensemble
Kipfer’s Cosmic Choir
BBC Concert Orchestra

Andrew Shore Auguste Piccard
Robin Tritschler Paul Kipfer
Leigh Melrose Einstein
Nicholas Clapton Newton
Mary Plazas Madame Kipfer

Will Gregory’s debut opera is a classic adventure about the brilliant physicist, Auguste Piccard. On a mission to prove Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, he takes to the skies with his assistant in an airtight capsule. Travelling to a record-breaking 51,000 feet, they survive being roasted by the sun, toxic balls of mercury and crashing into the Alps. Clearly not a blackboard and chalk type of scientist, Piccard became world front-page news in 1931 and the inspiration for Hergé's cartoon character Professor Calculus in The Adventures of Tintin series.

Piccard in Space: out of this stratosphere!

Only 2 performances
Tickets £15

How to get there
- By tube
  - Waterloo (Bakerloo, Northern, Jubilee and Waterloo and City lines). Embankment (Circle and District lines).
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