September 1996 | Opera and Music Theatre Lab


Lab director
Robert Saxton

Lab mentors
Stephen Plaice - writer
Stephen Langridge - director
Jane Manning OBE - singer
Kenneth Tharp - choreographer

Lab participants
Rukhsana Ahmed - librettist
Matthew Andrews - Lab runner
Marcia Bellamy - singer
Michael Bennett - singer
Iain Duhig - writer
Clare Estelle - video crew
Jennie Fontana - librettist
Joy Goodman - Lab co-ordinator
Adam Gorb - composer
Julia Gomelskaya - composer
Mike Henry - singer
David Horne - composer
Simon Kent - repetiteur
Stephen Knight - librettist
David Knotts - composer
Jozik Koc - singer
Ben Lambert - video crew
Katherine Norman - composer
Lynne Plowman - composer
Joanne Postlewaite - video crew
Julia Richter - repetiteur
Peter Selwyn - conductor
Anne Sheridan - singer
Barry Simner - librettist
Lala Thorpe - Lab co-ordinator
Kevin White - video crew

Guest speakers
Russell Hoban - writer
Michael White - music critic

Visitors
Graham Allum - Kent Opera
Michael Barclay
Elise Beckett Smith - PAL Trustee
Mark Dornford-May - Broomhill Opera
Michael Emery - Producer, BBC Singers
John Faulkner - PAL Trustee
Sara Hickson - ENO Works
Joyce Hytner - PAL Trustee
Wasfi Kani - Pimlico Opera and Garsington
Edward Knighton - PAL Trustee
James Lee - PAL Trustee
George Loudon - PAL Trustee
Michael McCarthy - Music Theatre Wales
Michael Rafferty - Music Theatre Wales
Jonathan Reekie - Almeida
Sally Sampson - PAL Trustee
Louisa Service - PAL Trustee
Katie Tearle - Glyndebourne
Sir John Tooley - PAL Trustee
Sarah Walker - singer
John Wates - PAL Trustee
Natalie Wheen - critic and broadcaster

Funded by
Arts Council England
Jerwood Foundation
SE Arts
Sport and Arts Foundation