Exhilarating synergies, universal themes, the power of the human voice – celebrating storytelling in song cycles from 1823 and 2023.
Stories We Tell Ourselves by Thomas Guthrie, Vicky Olusanya and the Lewisham Creative Chorus, is a world premiere event featuring songs from Schubert’s ‘Die schöne Müllerin’ in a new arrangement by Thomas Guthrie, in celebration of the 200th anniversary of its composition.
A collaborative event launching two projects in a single programme, Stories We Tell Ourselves is presented by Music and Theatre for All.
Two performances in one night and three ways to share:
Wednesday 26th April 2023
at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens, Vauxhall 6:00pm – tickets available here
& via Livestream from 6:00pm – tickets (suggested donation £5 or whatever you can pay) available here
then at The Fellowship Inn, Bellingham at 8:30pm – sold out!
An exhilarating, synergetic development of two of MTFA’s flagship projects, Schubert 200 and Lewisham Urban Opera, it will feature performances by Gwyneth Herbert, Thomas Guthrie, the Outcry Ensemble, Vox Urbane, The Mind and Soul Choir and MTFA’s own Lewisham Creative Chorus.
‘a bold, moving and relevant work of art’
‘a sense of meaning surpassing that which I have often experienced in more rarefied environments’
‘embodied with raw refinement (what opera is all about, for me) that great art Keeps It Real’
for Lewisham Urban Opera, Our Street
Stories We Tell Ourselves includes the world premiere of a brand new song cycle created in response to and celebration of the 200th anniversary of ‘Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin’. The contemporary song cycle has been devised and performed by the Lewisham Creative Chorus (LCC), a community group formed out of the Lewisham Urban Opera project, part of the Lewisham Borough of Culture 2022.
Meanwhile, Schubert200 explores a new arrangement/production of Schubert’s first song cycle from 1823, which will be released on Rubicon Classics later in the year.
Presented by Music and Theatre for All with guest artists:
Gwyneth Herbert
Thomas Guthrie
Vox Urbane
The Mind and Soul Choir
The Outcry Ensemble
and the Lewisham Creative Chorus.