Paul spread the love at the world premiere of the Cincinnati Opera‘s take on Paul’s childhood get back classical piece: ‘Liverpool Oratorio’
While the Queen City did not get the breathlessly hoped-for drop-in from Paul on Thursday night (July 18) at the world premiere of the Cincinnati Opera‘s take on Sir Paul McCartney‘s Liverpool Oratorio, they did get a very special message from the night’s absent guest of honor.
“Hello, Cincinnati! Good evening. I’m so excited to hear that the Cincinnati Opera is putting on my Liverpool Oratorio, This work is really special for me because it was the first large scale thing like this that I’d done, and it’s largely based on a lot of events from my childhood. The school I went to… the teacher, Miss Inkley, who was the only female teacher in a school of a thousand boys. So it’s really true, as it says in the opera, where she says, ‘Hello, boys. You can call me, ‘Sir,’” Paul continued. “Well, as 11-year-olds, it’s a little difficult to make sense of that. But anyway, I love the piece, and I love that you’re doing it there in Cincinnati. So I hope you have a great evening. Thank you very much for putting it on. I wish I was there with you, but I can’t be there. So I’m here. So have a great one. Thank you.”
McCartney said in a pre-taped message that played for the capacity crowd in Cincinnati Music Hall’s 2,300-capacity Springer Auditorium before the opening night of the fresh take on his first classical composition.
And though Paul wasn’t on hand to see the Opera’s high-energy take on his eight-movement homage to his hometown, in the weeks leading up to the debut the city was blanketed with a blizzard of posters, social media messages and memes encouraging locals to help “Get Paul to the Hall.”
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