Things are off to a great start – there’s a lot of momentum behind this Programme and Lolo seems to have limitless energy in bringing it all together.

As you’ll probably have read in the side-bar, I am a theatrical Director who is spending this year continuing an ongoing exploration of opera. The smallest opera project usually becomes a big undertaking due to the resources and people needed. I’m not a singer or a musician but I find it very inspiring to collaborate with people who make music and add my own skills in staging drama to the mix. This Residency provides an exciting opportunity to see what other creative specialists outside the proscribed opera domain might be open to collaborate on new work too.

I paid a visit to the lovely ladies at Wild Kat PR last week – they were quite taken by some large-scale photo stills of my last opera film project Tales of Hoffmann – so I dropped the pics off to festoon a tiny corner of their enormous new office. (If you happen to go there and see big glossy pictures of dancing blow-up dolls or femme fatales, that would be them..!) We’ve started a great dialogue about some ideas I have to get opera into the Club, so watch this space.

I’m currently preparing to assist the Director Katie Mitchell on her new production of Idomeneo at the ENO which starts rehearsals in a few weeks’ time – picked up my phone-book sized score the other day!

Please say hi if you see me around in the Club – I’m looking forward to meeting some interesting people here.