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JER-RY! JER-RY! JER-RY! - August 2001 The Independent - By Anna Picard - August 20th, 2001
This Tuesday, Battersea Arts Centre’s annual contemporary opera fest, “The Works”, will open with the first opera to take television as its subject. No, it’s not a Network, or a Broadcast News. It’s not by Turnage either. Or Butler, or Sawer, or Adès. It’s Jerry Springer the Opera, the latest creation from Kombat Opera’s Richard…
Jerry Springer: The Opera - August 2001 The Pulse, South London Press - August 17th, 2001
Jerry Springer: The Opera sounds like a contradiction in terms. But it all makes perfect sense to composer Richard Thomas, who is principally to blame for the world premiere of that name at Battersea’s BAC next week. Camberwell-based Richard, 36, says: “Jerry Springer’s TV show is about these guests coming in screaming at each other…
Opera in the style of Oprah - August 2001 The Evening Standard - August 17th, 2001
Like his controversial brother Chris, Tom Morris pushes against tradition. Rachel Halliburton met Battersea Arts Centre’s artistic director. Mention the name Jerry Springer, and you will experience a variety of reactions, whether it is the contemptuous smile, the brick hurled TV-wards, some predictable comment about everyone wanting their Warholian slice of fame, or an animated…