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Music Opera Theatre
Monday 15 September 2014 in London
By TW Editorial | Published on Monday 8 September 2014
And the LDN-based events the ThisWeek team is tipping today are…
COMEDY: ComEDy Gala w/ Katherine Ryan + Patrick Monahan + Nat Luurtsema + Juliette Burton | Comedy Store | 15 Sep
Sweet-comedian-with-bite Katherine Ryan takes a bow alongside co-stars Fringe mainstay and TW Editors’ Award winner Patrick Monahan, Jigsaw piece and TW letter-writer Nat Luurtsema and forthright comic Juliette Burton (who, by the way, headlines the latest ThisWeek London Podcast) at this smartly-billed A* gala in aid of a great cause. Details and tickets here.
MUSIC: Carter Tutti Void | Oslo | 15-16 Sep
A hybrid of Throbbing Gristle’s Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti with Nik Void of disco infiltrators Factory Floor, Mute signings Carter Tutti Void‘s main sonic schtick, a la their admirable 2012 LP ‘Transverse’, is a niche line in dark, pulsing noise-pop with a strong rhythm and synth contingent. Details and tickets here.
OPERA: Xerxes | London Coliseum | 15 Sep – 3 Oct
The Coliseum hails Nicholas Hytner’s Olivier Award-winning take on this light, fizzy and flirty opera by the one and, in fact, the only, George Frideric Handel. Based in part in Vauxhall’s pleasure gardens (as they were in the 1700s), ‘Xerxes’ dives right into a love triangle between two brothers who love the same woman. Mezzo-soprano Alice Coote mans up to play the male title tole, whilst counter-tenor Andrew Watts voices his/her sibling Arsamenes, and Sarah Tynan sings Romilda. Details and tickets here.
