Posts Tagged “cosi fan tutte”

Bafta Screening

3 Commentsby Juliette  |  10.27.10  |  "First Night", Latest News

James and I attended the screening of the Cosi film last night at Bafta. We’d invited several record company execs to come as we are hoping the soundtrack will make a lovely album for release alongside the film.

So there we were in our Bafta-best ready to chat them up when it dawned on us that we didn’t actually know what several of them looked like. (We tend to deal with A&R, not marketing people.) Rather than accosting strangers all night, we resorted to sending out emails this morning to those we didn’t meet and so far we’ve had some very favourable responses. To be honest, it would be a poor do if a soundtrack of Mozart’s masterpieces didn’t get a thumbs up from record companies but in this day and age, nothing surprises me! More »

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Recording the soundtrack

1 Commentby Juliette  |  04.08.10  |  "First Night", Latest News, Record Producing

It was the first orchestral session for the film on Tuesday and after a very long Monday night I’ve decided I’m getting too old to stay up meeting deadlines. It’s bad enough when I have to do it for the babies, but I’d always presumed I would grow out of the traditional 3am essay crisis (accompanied by copious cups of coffee with toast and marmite) but my Cambridge days are a good 15 years back and its not happened yet.  Rather like the feeding of twins 3 hourly 24/7, there is something very intimate about sharing those middle of the night work panics with someone;

“Shall I put more coffee on?” More »

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More dubbing of opera singers

7 Commentsby Juliette  |  02.08.10  |  "First Night", Latest News

Well, Julian Ovenden’s recording session for Bet on Love went well. We thought we would need 2 days to dub all of his music but as he was dubbing himself, he rather unsurprisingly found it pretty straightforward to match his singing with his own mouth movements! We just have the soprano Sally Matthews left to record for the film this weekend. I was at college with Sally years ago and she was an outstanding opera singer even then. She is currently singing the role of Fiordiligi at Covent Garden to rave reviews so it should be a fun weekend of work and catching up.

I have to take Arthur into Kings for further hearing assessments this week and couldn’t resist posting this photo of him following in his parents footsteps – just listening to an edit perhaps? More »

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Dubbing the singing for a film

7 Commentsby Juliette  |  01.25.10  |  "First Night", Latest News

I’ve spent the weekend dubbing the singing voice of the actress, Emma Williams for the film

Bet on Love.

I have to say, it’s not as easy as it looks. I feel a little sheepish as I’ve been recording the singers who are dubbing some of the other actors and I made Peter Savage, the lovely bass baritone, sing one phrase about 30 times to get it exact. Having said that, he is the singing voice of Richard E Grant in the film, More »

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