Emma lives with her father in an old paper mill. Left alone to play, Emma begins to make her own secret forest – a forest of paper. She makes beautiful paper birds…
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The Music Box is a story of two men: Maelzel the greedy inventor and Beethoven the famous composer. It is also the story of magical musical inventions and a beautiful clockwork Ballerina….
In 2018, Goldfield Productions and North Herts Music School created a groundbreaking outreach project enabling 50 young people to tell stories in their own way though words, music and performance. The result…
You can watch the full opera here: Tokaido Road A short film about the making of Tokaido Road: The Tokaido Road Journey “Tokaido Road is an existential journey in speech, song, mime and dance…LeFanu’s sensitive…
What was it like to be a child evacuee during the War? Through music, pictures, storytelling and theatre, we tell the story of Maggie, her two brothers and the adventure of their evacuation….
‘Three travellers meet on a road…one carries a mask on his back…..where have they come from? What adventures will they have? Beautifully illustrated with colourful, often humorous, prints by the famous artist…
Complex, vast, ambitious things captivate humans: composers too. We enjoy being dwarfed by an idea and we are excited by creations that explore and exceed boundaries. And so is it is with…
RITUAL IN TRANSFIGURED TIME is a 1946 film by Maya Deren, a surreal silent avant garde movie which inspired one of our two new commissions and the wider aesthetics of the whole…
The Goldfield Ensemble’s new production for younger audiences in association with Cambridgeshire Music Hub Live Festival Written and devised by Kate Romano Find out about the man who thought birds migrated to the moon, the…
The Seeker is a new musical by Rachel Fuller based on the novel, Siddhartha by Herman Hesse. Set in India around the time of the BUDDHA, approx. 500 b.c., it tells the story…
Denounced by her neighbours as a witch, Katharina Kepler is plunged into a crazed and corrupt legal process in this compelling historical opera by award-winning composer Tim Watts. Can her brilliant son,…
Goldfield Productions weave their trademark magic of storytelling, simple shadow-play images and the finest chamber music to bring you Three Stories About Home. Inspired by our 2018 Hansel & Gretel project, this pop-up…
Music Matters: 17th March 2017 Presented by Tom Service, live from BBC Radio 3’s Pop Up Studio at Sage Gateshead as part of the Free Thinking Festival.This special edition of Music Matters…
Enter a world of light and shadow, of darkness and deception, a helter-skelter journey through ghostly horizons and feasts of sweetness.… In 2018, Goldfield Productions were proud to present their brand new touring production: a re-imagining…
Bin Boğalar Efsanesi is a new transcultural music theatre work, featuring the astonishing sounds of Bozlak and Anatolian voices, Bağlama and the Turkish and Western instruments performed by Hezarfen Ensemble. Based on…
Welcome to a world of bloody murder and quick-fix cures…of side shows and game shows… a twisted theatrical and musical fairground where nothing is quite as it seems… For four days in…
The much-anticipated new opera by Alex Mills exploring the emotional world of the world’s greatest polymath LEONARDO – the story 2019 is the 500th anniversary year of Leonardo da Vinci’s death –…
Birth control pioneer Marie Stopes published her controversial sex manual in 1918, triggering a global scandal and a sexual revolution. The book fiercely advocated for women’s bodily freedom, asserted that women have equal sexual desire (and therefore choice in sexual matters) to…
Toby Jones plays John Clare, the ‘peasant poet’, in a musical and literary celebration of Clare’s life After two hundred years of scrutiny of his life and work, John Clare speaks his…
In 1979 a biologist, Professor Richard Abbott, discovered a new species of plant. It was growing in a patch of scrubland next to a car park in York. An overlooked, unloved place……
Around 10 years ago, I sat in a small public lecture theatre listening to a cancer patient speak about her illness. I was gripped. Hers was a brutal, raging cancer, the treatment…
Hello everyone – would you like to help me create an honest (perhaps alternative?) picture of music and the arts in the UK? I’ve always been fascinated by UNREALISED PROJECTS…artistic dreams, ideas,…
How’s your day? Not your social media whoo-hoo day, but your real, emotional, volatile, unpredictable, roller-coaster day? The one that causes you to take long, hard breaths when something doesn’t quite work…
This is what a much-loved, much-played musical score looks like. This is a piece of music that has travelled in the zip-up compartment of an instrument case on trains, in cars, planes,…
By the time I left primary school, my rumbustious classmates and I were familiar with over 200 pieces of classical music. That’s surely an extraordinary statistic by today’s standards. The school was…
Curate; from the Latin curatus, past participle of curare, ‘to take care of’. Programming music, curating sound, comes with deep responsibilities. We need to take great care of new music in particular….
I can’t listen to Delibes’ Coppelia without my mind leaping back to my five-year old self, dancing around the living room to an Ernest Ansermet Decca recording. The next LP on the…
(image:Grégoire Pont, Rooftop gymnopedie, 2009) It was an absolute pleasure to interview French artist Grégoire Pont about his work with François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles …and other stories…. ‘Are you going to film this…
What a delight – to be asked to write 1 minute 45 seconds of Toy Piano music for artist Clive Hicks Jenkins new picture book trailer! After 10 years of not composing, I…
The sounds and inspiration behind RITUAL IN TRANSFIGURED TIME A bell strikes. A rich, metallic, portentous spectrum, heralding a call, change, victory, danger, celebration… Surely a bell is one of the most…
Its not often that you take your seat in a concert venue that could kill you. Situated beneath Tower Bridge are two cavernous bascule chambers, housing the huge counterweights that swing the bridge into…
‘Neglect’: its a strong word. To abandon. To fail to care for properly. It’s a label we bandy about a bit in classical music and attach variably to a mixed...
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Spitalfields Festival 13th June 2016 For Magnetic Tape II (London Premiere) – Christian Wolff Muffled Cyphers – Langham Research Centre The Dark Tower (wp) – Langham Research Centre The thing about…
Thoughts on the RITUAL in Transfigured Time tour (Poème électronique at Cheltenham Festival) In 1958 Edgard Varese’s ‘Poème électronique’ premiered at Expo 58, also known as the Brussels World’s Fair,...
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This is the first step in my attempt to reawaken my ears. To ‘cleanse’ myself of the saturation of sounds around us in daily life, to start afresh… a sort of detox…