A one-night-only performance of The Grief Opera, in Bath, on World Suicide Prevention Day, in collaboration with Suicide&Co.
The opera moves from a father’s last conversations with his musician son through the shock of his death to the challenge of great grief and love. Combining elements of opera, musicals and concerts, and weaving classical styles and jazz, the Grief Opera takes us on a journey that will resonate with all who know great loss.
Nigel Linacre wrote the lyrics after he lost his son George Linacre to suicide. Jazz band leader and pianist Vladimir Miller created the music having lost a band member to suicide earlier in his life.
Vlad’s album Diaghilev’s Dance, with a trio version of his band Notes From Underground, is now available on Spotify, Apple Music and other streaming sites.
Diaghilev’s Dancefeatures Leslee Booth on bass guitar and Dave Rohoman on drums, with Vladimir on piano, and is released on ASC Records.
Miller Hutch are a duo that perform their own compositions as well as playing arrangements of jazz standards by Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Hoagy Charmichael, Freddie Hubbard and many more. They have appeared at venues across the South of England.
Vladimir Miller is a pianist and principal composer and music director of the Moscow Composers Orchestra, and has his own quartet Notes from Underground.
Hutch Demouilpied performs on trumpet and flute and is a composer. Her score for the British/Scottish feature film Limbowas selected for Cannes 2020. Hutch’s recent film The Debutante, by director Elizabeth Hobbs, was short listed at the 95th Academy Awards in the short animation category.
The Grief Opera, a collaboration between Vladimir and Nigel Linacre, is available now, on streaming services, and on CD at Prima Facie Records.
Nigel Linacre started writing the lyrics for The Grief Opera when his son, George, died by his own hand. Vladimir Miller used George’s rhythms as a foundation for the music he composed.
The Grief Opera is somewhere between a small-scale opera, a standing concert and a musical, in which amateur singers, narrators and musicians are joined by Vladimir Miller on piano, and international opera star Neil Latchman and rock singer Keri Farish as lead vocalists, in a community initiative promoting Suicide Awareness. The Grief Opera is profoundly emotional, and has been described as “harrowing but ultimately uplifting”.
Miller Hutch are a duo that perform their own compositions as well as playing arrangements of jazz standards by Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Hoagy Charmichael, Freddie Hubbard and many more. https://millerhutch.bandcamp.com/
Vladimir Miller is a pianist and principal composer and music director of the Moscow Composers Orchestra, and has his own quartet Notes from Underground. http://vladimirmiller.co.uk
Hutch Demouilpied performs on trumpet and flute and is a composer. Her score for the British / Scottish feature film Limbo was selected for Cannes 2020. www.hutchdemouilpied.com
A single from the forthcoming CD The Grief Opera is available now.
Nigel Linacre started writing the lyrics for The Grief Opera when his son, George, died by his own hand. Vladimir Miller used George’s rhythms as a foundation for the music he composed. The Grief Opera is somewhere between a small-scale opera, a standing concert and a musical.