Taking It Up The Octave

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Taking It Up the Octave: Episode 1

Taking It up the Octave

Episode 1

Taking It Up the Octave

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Taking It Up the Octave, Episode 1

Tempers and egos flare as Opera Sunderland opts for West Side Story over a gay opera.

Tempers and egos flare as Opera Sunderland opts for West Side Story over an innovative gay opera. With Godfrey James. From June 1997.

Opera Sunderland has a tradition of performing a new work every season - "its umbilical cord to civilisation".

However, when managing director Dwight Gaggenheim opts for West Side Story over innovative gay opera St Sebastien, the tempers and egos of a plethora of opera types come bubbling to the surface.

Comedy drama in five parts written by Fintan Coyle and Tom Miles 

Derek    .......    Andrew Branch
Keyboard Ken    .......    Tom Miles
Cilla    .......    Carolyn Bonnyman
Gareth    .......    Godfrey James
James    .......    Simon Butteriss
Natasha    .......    Caz Weller
Dwight    .......    Jonathan Kydd

Singers:

Alison Porter
Susan Jelley
Henrik Wager
Ian Bloomfield

Producer Chris Neill

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1997.

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The mishaps and adventures of the acting troupe at Opera Sunderland

Comedy by Fintan Coyle and Tom Miles focusing on the mishaps and adventures of the acting troupe at Opera Sunderland

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