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A teenage girl in 1980’s Paris attempts to lead a normal adolescent existence – falling in love, rebelling, searching for her identity – against the backdrop of her volatile artist father’s secret history of war, holocaust and exile.
Music: Tom Smail
Libretto: Alba Arikha
Director: Hugh Hudson
Designer: Laura Albeck
Associate Designer: Sara Stanton

21 June 2018

Blue Electric: how our opera came to life

Composer and Author/Librettist discuss their new opera

11 March 2018

In conversation with Griselda Pollock and Janet Wolff

Jewish Book Week 2018

28 March 2018

Cross-Channel journal, Radio 4

Thoughts about the English Channel: selected for Pick of the Week

26 June 2017

Front Row

BBC Radio 4

With Kirsty Lang

15 May 2017

BBC London: the Jo Good show

Major/Minor and Paris

19 December 2015

The Cultural Frontline

On Hemingway and the Paris attacks

01 October 2015

Radio 4 Book of the Week

August 1,2 2013

Soon

Performed at the Riverside Studios

Opera by Tom Smail, with words by Alba Arikha.

Mezzo: Kate Symonds-Joy
Soprano: Helen-Jane Howells
Tenor: Matt Long
Baritone: George Humphreys
Conductor: Carlos del Cueto
Directed by Rosalind Parker
Set design: Tarka Kings
Narration: Natascha McElhone

June 2013

La Repubblica

Interview at the Santa Maddalena foundation, Italy

24 September 2011

Dans une impasse

Recorded at a live concert at the Theatre de la Vieille Grille in Paris

The concert featured Sagat Guirey (guitar); Marcus Tilt (accordion); Tom Smail (drums); Loz Garratt (double bass).

18 May 2023

August 2022

BBC

June 2022

BBC

18 September 2020

TLS

17 April 2020

10 March 2019

King's Place

07 August 2018

Tete-a-Tete festival | RADA studios - 7:00 pm