Shaw Goes Wilde: Nightingale and the Rose
- Year2019
- VenueSusie Sainsbury Theatre, Royal Academy of Music
Pegasus Opera Company presents the UK Premier of two one-act operas by Philip Hagemann based on Bernard Shaw’s ‘The Music Cure’ & Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Nightingale and the Rose’.
The Nightingale and the Rose A student has fallen in love with a young maiden who demands he shows his feelings by giving her a red rose. Unable to find one, a nightingale offers to make a red rose for him. Wilde’s bittersweet tale is adopted by New York based Composer and conductor, Philip Hagemann.
- Official programmeDownload (PDF, 28.7mb)
- Director Louise Bakker
- Creative teamComposer Philip Hagemann, Artistic Director Alison Buchanan, Producer Jordan Mullineaux, Director Louise Bakker, Lighting Charlie Morgan Jones, Set & Costume Richard Evans, Stage Manager John Nicoll, AV Designer Lewis Den Hertog, Costume supervisor Samantha Murphey, ASM Amal Khalidi, ASM Kiera Dulake