I was recently really delighted to have my song ‘Little Princess’ used in a documentary called ‘The Art of Walking’, which was distributed with The Age newspaper in Melbourne & the Sydney Morning Herald in Sydney. You can watch a trailer for the doco here:
Ophelia recently collaborated with visual artist Lang Leav (Akina) and composer Cyrus Meurant on their music picture book, Poems for Piotr. Only 100 copies were handcrafted by Lang – learn more and listen to music samples here.
Lang Leav hand-binding Poems for Piotr
After an amazing evening launching my new CD ‘The Secret Garden’ at The Vanguard on Thursday 27 August 2009, I am so looking forward to releasing it in a couple of weeks. Pre-orders will be soon available from this site and in the meantime, I hope you enjoy some beautiful photos taken by my friend Smurfun on the night!
Ophelia of the Spirits’ alter ego Angela Little has been revealed as the singer and co-writer of the love song for Baz Luhrmann’s new epic ‘Australia’ following the film’s world premiere in Sydney last night!
Angela has spent the past six months working on the film, composing, orhchestrating and scoring additional music for the film with collaborator and mentor Felix Meagher, in a music team headed by Oscar-nominated composer David Hirschfelder.
More details to come soon.
Ophelia of the Spirits’ song ‘Winter’ has been named as a top ten finalist in the Instrumental Category of the MusicOz Awards 2008!
By Michael Smith:
1 July 2008: Issue 912
Here’s a piano-playing female singer/songwriter who hasn’t resorted to the contemporary penchant for emphasising her Australian accent, yet isn’t singing with an American accent. Her limpid vocal delivery is studied and articulate, often haunting, even as her accompanists on a track like ‘Nothingness’ hurtle into chaos. There are hints of Enya & Loreena McKennitt, even Maggie Reilly circa Mike Oldfield’s ‘Moonlight Shadow’, without being twee or cloying. Rather, there’s a certain elegiac quality that invariably recalls her Shakespearian namesake. All very pre-Raphaelite really, in an impressionistic musical way.
Follow this link to the article: http://www.timeoutsydney.com.au/music/classicaljazz/ophelia-of-the-spirits.aspx
Or click on the picture of the article to enlarge
Angela recently assisted composer Basil Hogios with his score for the Bell Shakespeare Company production of ‘As You Like It’ which premiered at The Playhouse at the Sydney Opera House on 1 February 2008.
Publicity Image for Bell Shakespeare Company's 'As You Like It' 2008
Read some reviews of the show:
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/09/28/1064687666035.html
http://www.australianstage.com.au/reviews/sydney/as-you-like-it–bell-shakespeare-1096.html
