Live Brief - Northern Opera Group - The Left Bank Opera Festival - Annual Opera festival run at the Left Bank in Leeds' Headingley. The Left Bank is a former church turned multi-disciplinary arts space, known for hosting exihibitions, art fairs, markets, pop up cinema evenings, performances, music and theatre. It has been the home of the Left Bank Opera Festival since 2017, and remains the venue for this years festival.
This years Left Bank Opera Festival is focussed on Operas long relationship with Asia. This year showing three performances that looks at different aspects of this relationship.
This years performances include -
- Raymond Yiu's - 'The Original Chinese Conjuror' - an opera which is based on the true story of an American magician who adopted the persona of a chinese man to make his act more exciting and gripping. "The Opera embraces the early 1900's setting of the story in its music and contains lots of on-stage magic (this may make for the most attractive marketing image)
- Gustav Holsts 'Savitri'; An adaptation of a traditional Indian folk story, concerning the relationship between a woman, her husband and Death.
- Camille Saint-Saens' 'The Yellow Princess'; A story of a man obsessed with the drawing of a Geisha, and his opium induced hallucinations about a mysterious Japanese lady.
THE BRIEF - This year Northern Opera Group are looking for an artist or designer to create the image that will be used to promote the Left Bank Opera Festival.
This can be in any medium, as long as it is works well when photographed or transferred to a digital image for print and online.
The content of the design is open but consider the theme of the festival and the audience.
Submission - Submit a Jpeg or PDF concept along with a statemement outlining the details of your design and your inspiration to - Careers@leeds-art.ac.uk
DEADLINE - 9am MONDAY 23rd of April
(Entrants will be made aware of the outcome by MONDAY 30th APRIL. If selected the final artwork will be required 11th May 2018.
Regulations -
- Must be a Leeds Arts Uni Student
- Entries can be collaborative or individual - but only one entry for student/group
- £500 commision
- The deadline is fixed and will not be changed to accomodate late submissions
- Must be submitted as a low res JPEG or PDF - It is upto the student to make sure the work is accesible and in working order
- Entracts accept that the client may request amendments to their initial concept, if they are chosen
- The copyright of all work submitted remains with the artist/designer: However by submitting work you are agreeing that the client can use your work for the promotional activities of the Left Bank Opera Festival or the Northern Opera Group. Should this happen the artist/designer shall be credited.
- Entrants understand that the commisioned artwork, along with those shortlisted, may be displayed during a public exhibition, at Left Bank Opera Festival. If this is the case, the artist/designer will be notified.
- If it is deemed that non of the submissions are suitable, no design will be chosen and the brief may be re-advertised.
KEY words and points
- Northern Opera Group
- Left Bank Opera Festival
- Leeds
- Headingley
- Left Bank
- Opera
- Asia
- Asian Opera
- Magic
- 1900's
- India
- Love
- Death
- Literal
- Figurative
- "Design Reflects an element of tension"
- Tension in relationship
- Attractive
- opium induced hallucinations
- western + asia
- OPERA
- Sad/happy
- fireworks
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