Fifteen-year-old Abigail Brainwood from Brighton is loving the fact that she knows she is on the verge of a truly extraordinary experience.
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00:00Good morning, my name is Phil Hewitt, Group Arts Editor at Sussex Newspapers. Really lovely
00:07to speak to 15-year-old Abigail in Brighton. Now, Abigail, you are doing a truly wonderful
00:12thing, aren't you? You are going to speak to the stage at Glyndebourne, no less, in
00:17the biggest community opera they've ever staged, called Uprising, and you talk about it with
00:23such enthusiasm. You're going to really love being in the middle of this huge chorus, this
00:28huge ensemble, a hundred people singing. What's that going to be like? It's going to be amazing
00:36because, as you said, this has never been done before. There's been a lot of operas,
00:46I haven't watched many, but there's performances, there's a lot of things that have been done
00:55before, and people have remade them and done it themselves, and this is going to be the
01:02first time ever doing it, first time people ever hearing about this, seeing about it.
01:09It's going to be fantastic for you because you are someone who naturally likes to sing,
01:13you just sing to yourself, don't you? And I think loving performing is a thing I love
01:21to do, and doing this thing is going to be a great and amazing opportunity.
01:27Wow, and for those of us who are not performers, that's almost difficult to understand. Why do you
01:33love performing so much? What does it give you when you are doing it?
01:37I think the stage. I like to think of it as my second home. It just feels natural to be
01:44on stage for me because I've always loved performing, since a young age. I've been
01:51doing this for the past 10 years, and it gives me so much joy and pleasure doing this,
02:00and doing Glyndebourne, and this is going to be such an amazing experience, and
02:07I just love being on stage. Well, it's going to be very good to have Glyndebourne on your CV,
02:12isn't it? Yeah, it will be. Anything to do with Glyndebourne, someone reading my CV will go like,
02:21that's amazing. Absolutely, and is this what you're wanting to do as a profession, the work?
02:28Yes, I would want to be a performer when I grow up, or when I'm older.
02:35Yeah, and as you were saying, you were saying so beautifully just now, this is an experience
02:40that you're going to love, and you're going to be telling your children about it, your
02:43grandchildren. Yeah, I think all the cast, including myself, will definitely be like,
02:50proud of this, and should be proud of this, because as I said, it is a once-in-a-lifetime
02:57opportunity, and people are going to be hearing about this, and it's just going to be incredible.
03:06I think a lot of people are going to get goosebumps and feel like,
03:15they probably would cry, especially my dad. That's all right.
03:20My dad is not a very emotional person, and I think he's probably going to be
03:26weeping in the audience. He will be very emotional when he sees you on stage, of course he will.
03:32Especially if I make my way to the front.
03:36And you're going to, aren't you? That's the plan.
03:38Yeah.
03:39Fantastic.
03:41That's one of my goals, make my way to the front.
03:45Good luck with that. It's called Uprising, and it's at Glyndebourne,
03:49end of February, very, very early March. Abigail, really lovely to speak to you. Thank you.