 The Answer to Everything is an interactive film and live opera event set in a conference. At first smarmy compere Steve Hedges keeps the delegates united and corporate confidence appears sky high, but as music gradually engulfs the business rhetoric his world begins to fall apart. Do they really have ‘the answer to everything’? Moving between stage and screen, the audience is invited to take part as conference delegates in this cheeky, satirical look at big business. Skilfully mixing performances from Streetwise Opera’s homeless and ex-homeless performers with a handful of professionals including renowned soprano Elizabeth Watts, this rich and characterful 70-minute experience features new commissions by Gavin Bryars, Orlando Gough, Emily Hall, Anna Meredith and Duncan Ward with existing music by Britten, Handel, Gounod, Schumann and Vivaldi. This is a live performance with optional audience participation; come dressed in your finest business-wear, collect your lanyard and conference pack from the Welcome Desk and get ready to ‘break out’. Monday 10th February 2014, 18:00-19:30 Cornerhouse 70 Oxford Street Manchester M1 5NH Tickets £8.00/6.00 £6.50/4.50 members £3 Live Wire Members Buy tickets - On sale from the Cornerhouse box office. 
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