Selections from Turkish Delight the Opera, Live at St Mary's

Here is the long-awaited sound recording from the first ever workshop production of Giles Howe and Katy Lipson's new musical-opera Turkish Delight the Opera. These selections star:

Jane Garrat as Betsy Cohen
Jess Negus as the British Woman
Gareth Bretherton as the British Man
Alexander Albrecht as the Turk

Giles Howe on piano, tyros, and church organ
Katy Lipson on piano

The sound quality isn't the best as this recording was taken from a camcorder filming in a church, but it does document a moment in theatrical history - the birth of Turkish Delight. It is strongly reccommended that you listen to this album in conjunction with the other recordings as they are much further developed from this original idea, in particular, the full score recorded live at The Black Cap.

Aside from Gareth Bretherton who reprised his role in the second production (the whole of which you can also download from jamendo), this production involves a totally different cast of singers. The roles of the Brit and of Betsy Cohen were written for respectiveley Jane and Gareth's voices. Jane (who incidentally has never had any classical training) is very unlikely to sing the show again, so it's great to have a record of her unforgettable performance. Jess Negus does a sterling job, also.

Please download the other CDs from Turkish Delight and follow the show on it's journey from inception to... whatever will come next.