Bloodily Ever After! In summer 2024, Gothic Opera’s Der Vampyr opened the Grimeborn Festival in a brand new revised version.
This innovative production achieved a sell-out run in 2019 and launched Gothic Opera on to the London opera scene. The opera was composed by Heinrich Marschner in 1828, and its plot has its origins in the short story The Vampyre, written by John William Polidori, putting it right at the heart of the gothic genre.
This is a hilarious and gory feminist retelling of this bloody tale, touching on themes of consent, agency and toxic masculinity. Performed with an innovative new instrumentation, sung in German with surtitles in English and with newly-written spoken English dialogue.
Supported by The Marchus Trust
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"What this fresh young company has done, for the second time since its inception in 2019, is to rip it open and extract the fun while keeping the corpse of Marschner's score quivering yet alive..."
Mark Valencia, Opera
"Gothic Opera’s production ramps up the silly in its screamy, cloak-sweeping homage to Marschner’s 1828 original, with a magnificent Gráinne Gillis as the Vampire Master"
Flora Willson, The Guardian
"an evening dripping with bloody good fun."
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Ruthven: Giuseppe Pellingra
Malwina: Milena Knauß
Aubrey: Jack Roberts
Emmy: Amber Reeves
Davenaut: Conall O'Neill
Janthe: Madeleine Todd
Georg: Matthew Scott Clark
Vampire Master: Gráinne GillisPiano/Harmonium: Jasmin Allpress
Cello: Niki Moosavi
Double bass: Adam Storey
Sousaphone: Iain McDonald -
Director: Julia Mintzer
Conductor and Arranger: Kelly Lovelady
Set and Costume Designer: Charles Ogilvie
Lighting Designer: Will Alder
Associate Director and Fight Choreographer: Jonny Danciger
Repetiteur: Jasmin AllpressProducer: Helene Mathiesen
Stage Manager: Vendy Pospisilova
Surtitles Operator: Bogdan Skrypka
Graphic Designer: Max Dabbs
Production Photography: Craig Fuller
Trailer: Robbie Thowless
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PHOTOGRAPHY BY CRAIG FULLER