Posts Tagged “Alfie Boe”

Gracie Fields

4 Commentsby Juliette  |  03.17.10  |  "First Night", Latest News, Record Producing

Just heard the producer has got the money in to do the orchestral sessions for the film. Of course they now want the music recorded tomorrow but it takes time to book studios, a symphony orchestra etc etc. We’ll do our very best. We’ve got Alfie Boe in the studio on Thursday to see whether the big wigs prefer his vocal to Julian’s.

James and I also clean forgot about the track we did on the new Gracie Field’s album with Jane Horrocks. Apparently it entered the album charts at 31 a couple of More »

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Bet on love or Sizzle

6 Commentsby Juliette  |  03.08.10  |  "First Night", Latest News

I’m glad to report that Thursday went well with all the big wigs from the film. We didn’t get all the music we’d worked on approved but the vast majority was passed so it’s been well worth all the hard work.

They’ve decided now they have heard all the ‘real’ opera voices dubbed over the actors, that they might want to dub Julian Ovenden as well. He did a great job and is a very good singer but he might not sound like an opera singer next to Sally Matthews in the duet from Cosi.

I’m very impressed he was so convincing. We’ve asked our old friend, Alfie Boe, to have a go at being his voice which we hope will be a good match if they do feel all the actors should be dubbed. He is in rehearsal at ENO at the moment so hopefully he will be More »

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