ENVY

“How do you think this is going? You in love with me yet?”

ALLURE (pronounced with CAPITAL LETTERS) is set up with Beauty on an online dating App, and while she is obnoxious to the point of despair, really she just wants to be liked. And is actually called Emma.

ENVY was commissioned as part of The Opera Story’s brand new opera, Beauty and the Seven Beasts; a clash of Beauty and the Beast and The Seven Deadly Sins, in which the Magic Mirror dating app promises Beauty true love in just seven dates. Each date was written by a different composer/librettist team.

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Beauty and the Seven Beasts was produced by The Opera Story at Brixton Jamm, April 6th - 14th 2022, directed by James Hurley. ENVY was composed by Lewis Murphy.

★ ★ ★ ★ “Never fails to entertain” - The Stage

“Meshes together two ancient tropes with such misanthropic virulence that you emerge thinking Sartre was on the right track when he declared that hell is other people.” - The Times

A “hilarious character study of the self-obsessed.” - Seen and Heard International

Photos by Nick Rutter