Everyman Opera

20/10/2025

20/10/2025

https://youtu.be/gsZ5Fz-EuI4 What serves to be said for technology, serves to be said for the arts 🎭 2025 Nobel prize for economics awarded for research done into how innovation in technology serves as an economic driver.

Update. Culture’s importance as both an economic driver, society relations, and general happiness.

18/09/2025

The ancient game of chess was born in the tribal states of India, some 1,500 years ago. Now it has evolved to become a five act opera... or rather, five moves that make Pawn Queen. Namely, pawn; knight; king; castling; queen... Pawn Queen. From rags to riches, love on a chess board. Help me get it staged. I am just x7 £50 notes from my target 💷

On the project Pawn Queen. It is a strong work on paper. I believe that it will work on stag… John Tatlow needs your support for Help Stage A New Opera

17/09/2025

£350 required to secure the consultants: The Arts Fundraisers. They have an excellent track record of winning the money required for art projects from the Arts Council of England (ACE). Often, an artist applying for funds directly from ACE must apply more than once. I'd rather leave it to the professionals, hence my appeal to raise a total of £2160 in another GoFundme page stalled some 82% to my target. In effect, I have the £1800 fee demanded by the consultants. The remainder that I am seeking is to pay the UK government's VAT set at 20%. That is, £360. I set my target to £350.
I urge you to watch my YouTube video, which gives the story of how the opera libretto 'Pawn Queen' came about.

£350 shy of my target. Please make a donation. The creation of 'PawnQueen' was an experimental 'letting go' of writing meticulous drafts. Using free thought,...

15/09/2025

Update of my GoFundme campaign. Target is £350. This model of inclusive opera promotes British culture created in order to appeal to UK residents, whatever their heritage, and background. Whether it be long dead ancestors, or parents born overseas, this is opera for Everyman (woman, and child!) in Britain and beyond. Stories that promote new, British culture to the world. Heritage is a means by which people identify themselves. Cultural heritage is the lens through which the world sees us Brits. Personally, I want the world to see me as cultured; that my work shows off the best of art-British 🎼 🎭

04/08/2025

With death very much on my mind, I have been inspired to create a new libretto entitled 'Memento Mori'. The work features a woman who, intent on su***de, ends up becomming apprentice to the angel Poiel. He takes her to 3 women who need a Memento Mori. Each woman is a different take on the meaning 'life is brief'. Whilst one's is shortened, another's is saved through art; and a third's saved through positive thought. This is my first tale set in the UK, and I wholly mean UK. The story begins, and ends in Yarnton, England. The second act takes the audience to Scotland, where there is an encounter with Queen Macbeth (ah, so that's why she commits su***de!). The third act moves to Cardiff Opera house, where we meet Efa, a befuddled diva (and I am convinced, future icon on the operatic stage). The fourth act takes us to the Mountains of Morne, northern Ireland, where we save the life of the beautiful, semi clad Beartha. Then for the all important sacrifice, which is critical for lending my creation a powerfully tragic ending. The entire libretto crafted in 26 days whilst sailing to Dunkirk and back. None of this would have come about were it not for my mom's recent passing, and the su***de of a work colleague just a short while before. Death rocked me, to the extent that I just had to create this piece. The angel Poiel - who features in this work - is my guardian angel (if you follow these esoteric beliefs). His sigel features here, and more information besides

Poiel, O que são os Anjos da Cabala, O que é Cabala, Anjos da Kabbalah, Os 72 nomes divinos, Anjos Cabalísticos, 72 nomes de Deus

20/07/2025

https://youtu.be/KPsppK2LKxM Good to get away from the usual routine. New habits, new thoughts. Awaiting quotes from carnatic musicians and Bharatanatyam choregrapher. Meantime, a new libretto is being produced. 3 out of 5 acts complete of my 'Memento Mori' work. The angel Poiel offers a woman about to commit su***de salvation, if she becomes his Memento Mori apprentice. This is my first tale set in the UK.

Voyage of discovery to France. First time across the channel on yacht 'Whisper'. With death very much on my mind, I have been inspired to commence a new libr...

07/06/2025

https://fb.watch/A45E_SltoD/ fabulous syncronisation of eurythmy to both voice, and instruments. Plenty of scope for the same in Pawn Queen. Am just a little shy to reaching my GoFundme https://gofund.me/77fd465b target. Am waiting on 2 potential venues to provide me their hire costs for both rehearsals, and performances. 😔

06/05/2025

Any recommendations for pubs with covered venue space in Oxford, greatly welcomed. Tap Social, & Isis Farmhouse approached for quotes, but they have not responded.

15/03/2025

As I ask in the vlog, if you wish to blow me fair wind to reach my £2100 target then go to the https://gofund.me/e25e446b link and make a donation... and pass on the message to friends.
People may possess many 'things' in their lives, but not possess as many positive 'experiences' they would wish to have. So many of us strive to 'have', yet "to have" can be either: the material possession, or the possession of a cultural experience. The latter is what I aim to bring to people. My satisfaction is realising an artwork than makes spectators think, whilst being entertained... sharing the experience in a communal fashion. This is where Greater happiness is to be found, so I feel. Not through one person's material 'things', but through sharing with others in making Culture come alive.

PAWN QUEEN - a new opera Hello, my name is John, founder of Everyman Opera. A libre… John Tatlow needs your support for Help get my first opera performed

05/03/2025

I Have uploaded a vlog to show off my eight libretti: I briefly give an explanation of each. Pawn Queen remains the one targeted to be the first produced, but as I explain, it is intended to be the second part of the trilogy telling the story of the man known as the criminal Babu Lucre. Pawn Queen captures him at the height of his wealth, and power, but this is the turning point of his life, when - as told in the final opera 'Mordechai' - he strives to cleanse his soul of past crimes. The overall aim of my work is to stage 'Picasso'. It is my tale about how Picasso came to capture the masterpiece painting, 'Guernica' on toile. Lila Palmer knows this piece well, as we worked on it together, back in 2020, when she was coaching me on how to write for opera. This piece requires a traditional opera stage, which is where I hope Lila, and her place of work, namely as general manager at the New Orleans Opera House furthers the tale waiting to be staged. Stage 'Pawn Queen', stimulate interest through social media, and win people such as Lila Palmer over.

I feel so fortunate to be a creator of works that I am sure will entertain new opera audiences. Indeed, writing new opera in such a way as to compliment trad...

08/01/2025

This magic carpet is close to its destination. £1749 raised. Just £251 to raise to hit my £2k target. The fundraising is going well, though slowly. 87% 0f th...