Welcome to the official website of Turkish Delight the Opera - an unusual new work by Giles Howe and Katy Lipson exploring the pleasures and dangers of a scorned woman's revenge. It follows the final chapters in the life of Betsy Cohen, a stir-crazy Turkish woman driven to a dangerous insanity by her husband's extra- marital activities.
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NEW RELEASE: The exciting studio recording of the latest production has just been made available for free!!! This new recording stars Arabella Rodrigo, Adam Bayjou, Julia Buckley, and Victor Sgarbi accompanied on the piano by the show's composers Giles Howe and Katy Lipson. You can download or stream it for free from this website under the "Audio" section, where you can find audio recordings of all four London productions of Turkish Delight the Opera including a live recording of the most recent production, selections performed by the cast of A STAGE KINDLY and also rare bonus tracks.
Betsy's husband has a mistress, who is flying to Turkey for a romantic few days away. However, her best friend upon her departure realizes that he is in fact impossibly in love with her.
Impetuous and impulsive, he follows her to Turkey to declare his love. But when he finds her, she is kissing the Turkish man!
Impetuous and impulsive, he follows her to
A passionate fight ensues, and the Turkish man dies in the arms of his lover, leaving her alone and ultimately forlorn in a strange country with nowhere to turn.
When Betsy finds out about her husbands death in a mysterious letter that arrives in the post on her birthday... she is horrified at his gruesome murder, but this blow is eclipsed by her fury and rage at the realization that the man to whom she has dedicated her life was a deceitful and adulterous cad!
Vengeance and retribution become her sole concerns, and consume her entire existence; she manoeuvres one revenge after another, until...
Musical - Presenting a story interspersed with or developed by music and song.
Burlesque - Emoting usually laughter or contempt by the use of extravagant images or by the inappropriate manner of treating a subject.
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