Libretto and music by Pete M Wyer
Directed by Matthew Sharp
Cremenvilee - a land of broken hearts, broken dreams and broken wind. A surreal operatic thriller, commissioned by Opera North's Resonance project in 2006, which makes a return in 2009.
57 Hours in the House of Culture is an opera in development with English National Opera and National Theatre Studio, based on the events of the Moscow Theatre Siege.
A collaboration with Phyllida Lloyd, Bryony Lavery and Johne Keane
Senbazuru was commissioned for the 100th anniversary of the Juilliard School in New York, a collaboration with the choregrapher Jessica Lang.
Words by Steve Dalachinsky
Additional Words Pete M Wyer
Score: Pete M Wyer
Premiered at the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre, Lincoln Center, New York, February 2006
Daisy Press: Soprano
Shelly Watson: Mezzo-soprano
Daniel Neer: Tenor
Greg Purnhagen: Baritone
\Andrea Quinn: Conductor
Juilliard Dancers performed with the Juilliard Orchestra
You Must Have This!
Libretto and music by Pete M Wyer
Directed by Matthew Sharp
Premieres: Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, August 9th and 10th as part of the Tete a Tete festival: www.tete-a-tete.org.uk
"Budgets are huge, deadlines are tight, truth is pliable and the fate of a new cheese cracker hangs in the balance... You Must Have This is a fast-moving operatic satire on TV advertising, where egos collide, friends have affairs with enemies and Brad and Angelina are due at any moment.." Jez runs an agency making adverts for TV. It's easy money...except his client is a neurotic nightmare, the competition's stealing his business, his main celebrity has finally gone insane and believes he's God and the ad in question goes on air.... TOMORROW!!?? A wry look at a world where smart people, who should know better, manipulate our dreams and desires, only to get hopelessly ensnared themselves. 'YMHT' is performed as work-in-progress.
Johnny's Midnight Goggles
A One Man Operatic Thriller
Script, libretto and music Pete M Wyer
Performed by Matthew Sharp
'An intoxicating and intimate passion play of sound, song, movement, and video - Pick of the Week.' The Guardian on Adam's Apple Johnny's been kidnapped, the Black Camel of Takrilakastan has shown up and a mysterious pair of goggles has opened a portal to another world. Midnight is fast approaching and the chase is on to rescue Johnny. Johnny's Midnight Goggles is a mind- and genre-bending explosion of storytelling, singing, music and sonic wizardry - think Tim Burton meets John Adams; Philip Pullman meets Paganini! SharpWire are cellist/singer/theatre performer, Matthew Sharp and writer/composer, Pete M Wyer. Their spellbinding excursions into uncharted performance territory have engaged and entranced audiences around the world. Witty, nail-biting and strikingly original music theatre with goggles on!