By matt | September 10, 2009
We’ve now been touring My Secret Heart for 10 months and everywhere we have gone, organisers and audiences have been amazing. We have just arrived back from a British Council-supported tour of Japan. Together with presentations of the installation at Yokohama’s 150-year celebration festival and Creative Cities Symposium we also screened the 7-minute film at Super Deluxe in Tokyo with [...]
My Secret Heart has just picked up a Royal Philharmonic Society Award which are the most prestigious awards in the classical music sector. The award is for Audience Development in association with Classic FM. Congratulations to everyone involved.
By matt | February 18, 2009
Hi everyone – well the tour has started with a bang! We began with a screening of the 7-minute version in Middlesbrough on the BBC Big Screen on 29th Jan. It was FREEZING! But thanks so much to the Wellington St gang who came out in force to perform some numbers for the premiere. The piece [...]
By matt | December 8, 2008
A massive, huge, heart-felt thank you to everyone involved in the premiere of My Secret Heart last week at the Royal Festival Hall. The two days seemed to go so quickly and there was barely enough time to take in the enormity of what we have all achieved. There are so many people to congratulate [...]
By matt | November 28, 2008
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/nov/28/mira-calix-streetwise-opera Lovely article – hope you like it everyone!
By matt | November 13, 2008
Wow – thank you so much for you lovely messages (there are lots that have appeared under the ‘intensive weeks…’ blog. It is an honour working with such a billiant, committed and caring group of performers. Can’t wait for the premiere in December! The taster video has had around 9,000 viewings in about 2 weeks! The December [...]
By matt | October 30, 2008
We’ve just returned from Switzerland where we previewed My Secret Heart in front of 3 sold-out audiences in Lucerne. The brilliant Byker Bridge group came (with performers also from the Streetwise Choir). It was a truly memorable week – the show is beautiful and Emma’s staging fits in really well. Audiences were really complimentary and [...]
By matt | September 18, 2008
17th Sept Hi everyone! Well, it’s been a busy month – all the centres have started learning the plainsong and first page of the Miserere and I hear it’s going well! More tour bookings are coming in and we’re only about 4 and a bit weeks from going to Lucerne for the previews. Roll on [...]
By matt | August 29, 2008
29th August 2008 A couple of weeks have passed since our 3rd and final intensive week working with all our performers round the country. The last group was in Notts and what a brilliant, touching, week. The performers worked their socks off and we’ve done some brilliant recording/filming. The standard of the singing was truly [...]
