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Performance on 3: BBC CO - Piccard in Space

BBC CO - Piccard in Space

13/04/2011

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Charles Hazlewood conducts the BBC CO and soloists in Will Gregory's Piccard in Space.

Charles Hazlewood conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra and soloists in the world premiere at the Southbank Centre, London, of Will Gregory's operatic adventure Piccard in Space.

Presented by Martin Handley

Piccard in Space - the world premiere of WIll Gregory's spectacular balloon operatic adventure.

Will Gregory's debut opera, written to a libretto by Hattie Naylor, 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!

Auguste Piccard: Andrew Shore 
Paul Kipfer: Robin Tritschler
Einstein:Leigh Melrose 
Newton: Nicholas Clapton 
Madame Kipfer: Mary Plazas
Will Gregory Moog Ensemble
Kipfer's Cosmic Choir
BBC Concert Orchestra 
Conductor Charles Hazlewood.

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