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The Long Christmas Dinner / A Dinner Engagement

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Guildhall School presents an opera double-bill

The Guildhall School’s opera department presents a double-bill of one-act operas with a distinctive culinary flavour.

Hindemith’s imaginative family drama The Long Christmas Dinner traverses 90 years in the lives of several generations of the Bayard family in New England. This subtle examination of American family life show births, marriages and deaths set against a backdrop of a rapidly changing society.

A gem of British comic opera, A Dinner Engagement is a comedy of manners set amongst the vegetables. Finding themselves in financial straits, Lord and Lady Dunmow prepare to host dinner for the Grand Duchess of Monteblanco and her son Phillipe in an attempt to marry off their troublesome daughter and thus solve their money problems. However, when dinner gets burnt, things go from bad to worse...

 

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The Long Christmas Dinner
Libretto by Thornton Wilder
Music by Paul Hindemith

A Dinner Engagement
Libretto by Paul Dehn
Music by Lennox Berkeley

Creative Team

  • Dominic Wheeler   conductor
  • Ashley Dean   director
  • Cordelia Chisholm   designer
  • Kevin Treacy   lighting designer
  • Laura Jane Stanfield   costume designer
  • Victoria Newlyn   movement director

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The Silk Street Theatre, Music Hall and Lecture Recital Room are located in the main Guildhall School building on Silk Street and for Barbican produced events the venue can also be accessed from the Barbican if you exit via the doors next to Barbican Kitchen on Level G. 

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Silk Street
Barbican
London
EC2Y 8DT

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