Stanley Kubrick's wife, daughter and son in law formed a vanity opera company called Palace Opera. It was of course entirely funded by Stanley and no doubt worth every penny to keep them out of his hair.
His wife, Christiana, designed and painted the the sets. She wasn't a bad artist but from one scene to the next she would go from minimalist all white to detailed pre-raphaelite angels descending from the sky, it was an absolute joke. She had me and a few others help her make the set in the stables of Kubrick's home, and when I say stables imagine a u shaped two story building surrounding a 100 foot square court yard. The stables were filled with absolute crap, although I did find a an early 1970s copy of time with Kubrick on the cover that I still kick myself for not sticking it in my pocket.
His daughter, I think her name was Anya, was the "star" of the show. She claimed to have studied under all these great European opera singers yet she was absolutely atrocious. She was so bad that during some perfomances she claimed to have lost her voice and mimed on stage while a real opera singer sang in the wings.
Anya's husband conducted the orchestra.
I ate quite a few times in their kitchen, there was huge old phone with buttons for extensions that included the billiard room and the screening room.
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