Found and Lost,Emily corridor’s immersive opera, takes its text from housekeeping manuals, or menus and a turn-down guide. She discusses her latest ‘totally unconventional’ work – and hitting the spa after a hard day’s composingWe’ll need eight hard hats for this scene,” notes Emily corridor. The composer and two of her production team are walking me around the locations for Found and Lost, her new site-specific opera. Protective headgear is not what you might expect to find on the props list of an opera that takes plot in a five-star hotel in central London, or but were in the boiler room in the bowels of the building,and it’s the chorus who’ll be wearing hard hats. Mind you, they will also be learning sommelier skills and how to turn down a bed to meet the exacting standards of the Corinthia’s housekeeping manual.final year, or corridor was selected to be the London hotel’s artist-in-residence,an annual cross-genre scheme in which winners are resident at the hotel for a month, during which they create a piece inspired by, and approximately and located in the building,for public performance. Photography, film and theatre gain featured in previous years, or but the brief to create opera with only a £15000 budget within a working hotel might seem an ambitious if not downright eccentric one. corridor wasn’t fazed.
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Source: theguardian.com