Welcome to the Voice

...they acted as his backing group for "Radio Radio." In 2000 Costello appeared at the Town Hall Theatre, New York, in Steve Nieve's opera Welcome to the Voice, alongside Ron Sexsmith and John Flansburgh of They Might Be Giants. In 2001,...

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...Haruki Murakami for Max Richter 's album Songs from Before. In 2006, Wyatt collaborated with Steve Nieve and Muriel Teodori on the opera Welcome to the Voice. Wyatt interprets the character 'the Friend', both singing and playing pocket...

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Welcome to the Voice is a bilingual opera (French and English) based on an original story and libretto by Muriel Teodori with music composed by Steve Nieve. A first draft was given a workshop performance at the Atlantic Bell Jazz Festival...

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...classical, and jazz styles, and Nieve has been a significant collaborator throughout. In 2007, he released a CD of his opera, "Welcome to the Voice," which juxtaposes jazz and rock singers with classically trained ones. Here, Nieve will be...

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...Well, no one is going to offer Elvis and I parts in Tosca, right?" Costello added, Except 'Spear-Bearer' maybe." Indeed, the opera Welcome to the Voice, which premiered Nov. 20, doesn't demand feats of coloratura of the pair. Rather, they...

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...a tour of Australia, Japan, Hong Kong and other far flung locales. Like I said, he could have just gone home. But the opera, called "Welcome to the Voice," has been percolating for some time since Nieve and Teodori began workshopping it...

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...at the historic Theatre Du Chatelet in Paris, they make their debuts as operatic singers in the premiere of the extraordinary Welcome to the Voice. advertisement "It is important sometimes to get outside your comfort zone just to see...

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...to watch the grapes grow," he told us. Next musical project? "I'm doing an opera with Elvis in Paris in November. " (It's called Welcome to the Voice and was written by Steve Nieve.) And what were his plans after walking offstage at the...

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...and "Demolition Man," which were not on the set lists last year. In related news, Sting will join Elvis Costello as performers in "Welcome to the Voice," an opera written by longtime Costello keyboardist Steve Nieve and Muriel Teodori.

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...to getting respect and accolades from critics. But lately he's been perplexed and disappointed by the media's apathy toward "Welcome to the Voice" (Deutsche Grammophon), an opera he created with his wife, the French writer Muriel...

In this article: Steve Nieve, Elvis Costello, Sting, Royal College of Music, Message in a Bottle, Robert Wyatt, and Deutsche Grammophon