Luke Styles, former Young Composer in Residence for Glyndebourne, presents a new one-act chamber opera based on Shakespeare’s violent tragedy.

Luke Styles is a UK based composer, he recently completed 3yrs as the Glyndebourne Young Composer in Residence . In this post, Luke composed two chamber operas and two youth operas, they have been performed on the famous Glyndebourne main stage, by the London Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of conductors such as Vladimir Jurowski. Alongside his operatic work Luke has found time to write new works for the London Sinfonietta, the 2014 Commonwealth Games and members of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.

The Royal Opera, under the direction of Antonio Pappano, is one of the world’s leading opera companies. Based in the iconic Covent Garden theatre, it is renowned both for its outstanding performances of traditional opera and for commissioning new works by today’s leading opera composers, such as Harrison Birtwistle, Mark-Anthony Turnage and Thomas Adès.

Venue

Linbury Studio Theatre
Royal Opera House, Bow Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2E 9DD

Season

This event is part of the Autumn 2015/16 season.

For more information go to The Royal Opera.