Teavee/Grandma Josephine: Mary Ann McCormick The World Premiere Production Team and Cast: Ī co-production between Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, American Lyric Theater, and Wexford Festival Opera. Candy Mallow/Squirrelmistress: Mezzo SopranoĬhorus of gargoyles, townsfolk, Oompa Loompas, and squirrels.Teavee/Grandma Josephine: Contralto or Mezzo Soprano No children's chorus was used in the World Premiere production.
The opera is written for a virtuoso chamber orchestra of 23 players, a cast of 12 principal singers, and a chorus of 24 adults with an optional children's chorus. American Lyric Theater developed the opera over a three-year period, including two extensive workshops in New York City, prior to partnering with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis in 2010 for the world premiere production. In 2006, this recording came to the attention of American Lyric Theater's Producing Artistic Director, Lawrence Edelson, who commissioned the completion of the opera in partnership with Felicity Dahl, widow of Roald Dahl.
After receiving funding from the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts in the UK, Ash and Sturrock created a 25-minute recording of excerpts of the opera to promote it to potential producers. This concert was considered by most to be a failure, in part due to the fact that family audiences had expected a fully staged version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – not an opera in concert. An early concert version of the score was presented by the Manchester Camerata shortly thereafter. The Golden Ticket was originally conceived as a project for London's Royal National Theatre, but early workshops initiated by the composer and librettist revealed the challenges of producing an opera under the auspices of a theater company that did not regularly employ classically trained singers.
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