Damon Albarn's Debut Opera to Make Appearance in London

Contributed By: Dan Schwartz Created On: Thursday, 12 June 2008 Hits: 97 Gorillaz Damon Albarn's debut opera, 'Monkey: Journey To The West', will makes its first ever appearance in London next month. The first date, showing at London's Royal Opera House, will take place between July 23 and 26. The show's premiere season sold out at the Manchester International Festival in 2007. Performances also sold out in Paris and America. :: story continues below :: The contemporary opera, composed by ex-Blur man Albarn, designed by Gorillaz co-founder Jamie Hewlett and directed by Chen Shi-Zheng, uses nearly 40 chinese performers ranging from acrobats to martial artists to singers and has an orchestra that combines Chinese and Western instruments. Tickets will go on sale from tomorrow (June 12) at 2pm. Share this article to: Comments Only registered users can write comments! 3.25 Copyright (C) 2007 Alain Georgette / Copyright (C) 2006 Frantisek Hliva. All rights reserved." What's On Related: Noel Gallagher Prises Blur 'Beetlebum' Track a Great Tune (28-09-2008) Gorillaz Begin Working on Follow-up Album to 'Demon Days' (20-09-2008) Damon Albarn to Produce Track for Amadou And Mariam (11-09-2008) Damon Albarn: Monkey: Journey To The West (14-08-2008) Damon Albarn Reveals Olympic His Passion of Table Tennis (31-07-2008) Prev Story: Beck Reveals New Album Track Listing Next Story: NERD's Pharrell Williams: 'I made Madonna cry like a baby'

 

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