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11 Sep
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Thursday, June 11, 2015 at 7:30pm Composer/Percussionist Lukas Ligeti Celebrates 50th Birthday 6/11 Austria Cultural Forum New York United States
Tickets: Free Lukas Ligeti and guests
On the occasion of his 50th birthday (6.13.15), the Austrian Cultural Forum New York presents an unprecedented overview of composer/percussionist Lukas Ligeti's work as a composer including new pieces written specifically for the occasion. The concert series opens June 11th at the ACFNY, with performances of Lukas’ solo and small ensemble works (performers include Thomas Bergeron, Candy Chiu, Jennifer Hymer, Ben Reimer, David Cossin, and others), and premiere pieces for Lukas’ new classical/indie rock band, Notebook. The festival culminates June 14th at Roulette featuring Lukas’ music for chamber orchestra. Program includes several world premieres, as well as U.S. and New York City premieres, performed by the fresh, contemporary-collective Ensemble mise-en conducted by Oliver Hagen, pianist Vicky Chow, and others.
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12 Sep
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Friday, June 12, 2015 at BIRTWISTLE: THE CORRIDOR/THE CURE Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh Snape Maltings Concert Hall,Snape,Suffolk,IP17 1SP United Kingdom +44 (0)1728 687110 http://www.aldeburgh.co.uk enquiries@aldeburgh.co.uk
Geoffrey Paterson conductor
Elizabeth Atherton soprano
Mark Padmore tenor
David Harsent librettist
Martin Duncan director
Alison Chitty set & costume designer
Paul Pyant lighting designer
London Sinfonietta
This music theatre double bill begins with a ‘photographic blow-up’ of one of the most heartrending moments of classical mythology: the fatal instant when Orpheus, glancing back along the corridor to the Underworld, inadvertently condemns Eurydice to an eternity in Hell. Now, Birtwistle returns with The Corridor’s ‘second half’: the restorative tale of Ovid’s Medea, who uses her powers to give new life to her lover’s ageing father, Aeson. The world premiere of The Cure will open the 2015 Aldeburgh Festival in a double bill with The Corridor, followed by further performances at Royal Opera House’s Linbury Studio Theatre. With introspective narratives that are as austere and compelling as Birtwistle’s music, this intimate chamber opera pairing is theatre in close-up.
Friday 12 June 2015 at 7.30pm (SOLD OUT), Sunday 14 June 2015 at 2.30pm, Monday 15 June 2015 at 5pm
Harrison Birtwistle : The Corridor The Cure
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14 Sep
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Sunday, June 14, 2015 at 7.30pm Luke Bedford and George Benjamin Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh Snape Maltings Concert Hall,Snape,Suffolk,IP17 1SP United Kingdom +44 (0)1728 687110 http://www.aldeburgh.co.uk enquiries@aldeburgh.co.uk
Mahler Chamber Orchestra
François-Xavier Roth conductor
The fizzing energy of Mozart and Schubert frames a Janus-like concert that straddles the centuries, turning back for inspiration but planting its feet in the music of today. In Ravel’s hands the grace and exuberance of French baroque dance forms become both homage to his French musical ancestry and bittersweet homily to the fallen.
Luke Bedford’s rhapsody evokes nineteenth century conjoined twins who sing with a striking, heartrending beauty whilst Benjamin’s taut, luminous score teems with vivid caprice and sombre foreboding. At the helm, Aldeburgh newcomer François-Xavier Roth blends period instrument sensibility and an extraordinary ear for the kaleidoscopic colours of new music.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Overture, The Marriage of Figaro Luke Bedford : Wonderful Two-Headed Nightingale Maurice Ravel : Le Tombeau de Couperin George Benjamin : Three Inventions Franz Schubert : Symphony No.5
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14 Sep
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Sunday, June 14, 2015 at 5:30pm Composer/Percussionist Lukas Ligeti and Guests 6/14 Roulette, Brooklyn, NY 509 Atlantic Ave (corner of 3rd) United States 917 267 0363 http://www.interpretations.info mutemus@rcn.com
Tickets: $20 Lukas Ligeti
Ensemble mise-en
and more
On the occasion of his 50th birthday (6.13.15), the Austrian Cultural Forum New York presents an unprecedented overview of composer/percussionist Lukas Ligeti's work as a composer including new pieces written specifically for the occasion. The concert series opens June 11th at the ACFNY, with performances of Lukas’ solo and small ensemble works (performers include Thomas Bergeron, Candy Chiu, Jennifer Hymer, Ben Reimer, David Cossin, and others), and premiere pieces for Lukas’ new classical/indie rock band, Notebook. The festival culminates June 14th at Roulette featuring Lukas’ music for chamber orchestra. Program includes several world premieres, as well as U.S. and New York City premieres, performed by the fresh, contemporary-collective Ensemble mise-en conducted by Oliver Hagen, pianist Vicky Chow, and others.
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14 Sep
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Sunday, June 14, 2015 at 8pm Boulez: Répons Holland Festival Amsterdam Netherlands
Ensemble intercontemporain, Matthias Pintscher
Pierre Boulez' groundbreaking work Répons (1981-1984) is the first composition in which the grand maitre of the musical experiment combined the performers' traditional instrumentation with real-time manipulated sound. Because of the spiralling character of the score and the spatial grouping of ensemble, soloists, loudspeakers ánd audience, Amsterdam's Gashouder is the ideal venue in which to fully appreciate the music's exciting interplay between past and present, question and answer. Boulez' faithful collaborators of the Ensemble intercontemporain and the sound wizards of IRCAM, the institute which was founded by Boulez, will play the piece twice, so that the audience can change seats in the break and re-experience the music from a different perspective the second time. It's a unique opportunity to get acquainted with every aspect of this iconic work.
Pierre Boulez : Répons
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16 Sep
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Tuesday, June 16, 2015 at 7:30pm Odyssey Opera Performs Powder Her Face 6/18-20 Boston Conservatory Boston, MA United States
Tickets: $20 and Up Odyssey Opera
Odyssey Opera's month-long (May-Jun) THE BRITISH INVASION opera festival culminates with a three-night performance Face (June 18-20) of the fully staged production of Thomas Ades’ Powder Her Face (1995). A collaboration between Thomas Adès and librettist Philip Hensher, Powder Her Face explores the intersection of gender, politics and power through the prism of the life story of Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll, dubbed the “Dirty Duchess.” In Powder Her Face, Adès plays off the public’s obsession with the tabloid controversy and challenges audiences to reconsider what they think of the Duchess.
Thomas Ades : Powder Her Face
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17 Sep
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Wednesday, June 17, 2015 at 7.30pm A Pierre Dream: A Portrait of Pierre Boulez Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh Snape Maltings Concert Hall,Snape,Suffolk,IP17 1SP United Kingdom +44 (0)1728 687110 http://www.aldeburgh.co.uk enquiries@aldeburgh.co.uk
Frank Gehry set design
Royal Academy of Music Manson Ensemble & soloists
Susanna Mälkki conductor
Pierre Boulez turns 90 this year, and this is both an innovative retrospective and a multi-faceted introduction to one of the giant figures in the music of our time. A Pierre Dream is an acoustic and theatrical journey through a lifetime of musical adventures, innovations and discoveries performed within a specially commissioned design by world renowned architect Frank Gehry. The production mixes live performance of works spanning over six decades of his creative career with rare on-screen archival footage and new interviews.
A Pierre Dream was conceived by Gerard McBurney as part of Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s acclaimed Beyond the Score series, developed equally for all audiences, whether newcomers or seasoned concert-goers.
Pierre Boulez : Various
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17 Sep
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Wednesday, June 17, 2015 at 7.30pm International Guitar in Bolton Bolton School Arts Centre Chorley New Road, Bolton, BL1 4PA United Kingdom
Tickets: £8 (£5 Manchester Guitar Circle Members) Steven Joseph (Classical Guitar) and
Jon Gjylaci (Classical Guitar)
with guest Mike Walker (Percussion)
A Classical Guitar Double-Bill
Programme includes music from Steven Joseph's newly-released CD 'Firewire'
AND the World Premiere of 'Five Divertissements for Guitar' by Helen Walker, performed by Jon Gjylaci
ALSO pieces by Albeniz, Jobim, Morel, Duarte, Dyens and Reinhardt.
Helen Walker : 'Five Divertissements for Guitar'
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18 Sep
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Thursday, June 18, 2015 at Boulez Exploration Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh Snape Maltings Concert Hall,Snape,Suffolk,IP17 1SP United Kingdom +44 (0)1728 687110 http://www.aldeburgh.co.uk enquiries@aldeburgh.co.uk
11.30am – 1pm - Pierre Boulez: Livre pour quatuor (extracts) with Quatuor Diotima
3pm – 4.30pm - Pierre Boulez Piano Sonata No.3 with Florent Boffard, piano
We present a fascinating two-part insight into the music of one of Europe’s leading modernist figures. Famous for radically recomposing his early works, Boulez wrote his short piece for string orchestra Livre pour cordes in 1968, but the six short pieces for string quartet on which the work is based, Livre pour quatuor, were written much earlier, when he was in his early twenties. Utterly revolutionary for their time, the pieces were later withdrawn by Boulez in their quartet form, partly because of the extreme demands they make on the players, but provide a striking portrait of the artist as a young man – breathtakingly radical, yet apparently already at ease in a language that his elders and contemporaries were approaching with 15 great caution. The outstanding Quatuor Diotima play extracts of the pieces, while composer Julian Anderson introduces the work and facilitates a discussion.
In the afternoon we explore Boulez’s remarkable, labyrinthine third sonata, which he describes as an ‘investigation of a relative world, a permanent “discovering” rather like the state of “permanent revolution”’. Written in 1958, the work was inspired by the innovations in form made in literature by Mallarmé and Joyce, with its five movements (of which only two were ‘finished’) to be played in any order and with each containing its own blueprint for localised indeterminacy. Florent Boffard, long-time soloist in Boulez’s Ensemble InterContemporain, performs not only the two finished and printed movements, but also Boulez’s latest unfinished and unpublished complementary parts.
Pierre Boulez : Livre pour quatuor (extracts) Pierre Boulez : Piano Sonata No.3
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18 Sep
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Thursday, June 18, 2015 at 7:30pm Odyssey Opera Performs Powder Her Face 6/18-20 Boston Conservatory Boston, MA United States
Tickets: $20 and Up Odyssey OPera
Odyssey Opera's month-long (May-Jun) THE BRITISH INVASION opera festival culminates with a three-night performance Face (June 18-20) of the fully staged production of Thomas Ades’ Powder Her Face (1995). A collaboration between Thomas Adès and librettist Philip Hensher, Powder Her Face explores the intersection of gender, politics and power through the prism of the life story of Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll, dubbed the “Dirty Duchess.” In Powder Her Face, Adès plays off the public’s obsession with the tabloid controversy and challenges audiences to reconsider what they think of the Duchess.
Thomas Ades : Powder Her Face
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19 Sep
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19 Sep
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Friday, June 19, 2015 at 7:30pm Odyssey Opera Performs Powder Her Face Boston Conservatory Boston, MA United States
Tickets: $20 and Up Odyssey Opera
Odyssey Opera's month-long (May-Jun) THE BRITISH INVASION opera festival culminates with a three-night performance Face (June 18-20) of the fully staged production of Thomas Ades’ Powder Her Face (1995). A collaboration between Thomas Adès and librettist Philip Hensher, Powder Her Face explores the intersection of gender, politics and power through the prism of the life story of Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll, dubbed the “Dirty Duchess.” In Powder Her Face, Adès plays off the public’s obsession with the tabloid controversy and challenges audiences to reconsider what they think of the Duchess.
Thomas Ades : Powder Her Face
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20 Sep
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Saturday, June 20, 2015 at 7:30pm Odyssey Opera Performs Powder Her Face 6/18-20 Boston Conservatory Boston, MA United States
Tickets: $20 and Up Odyssey Opera
Odyssey Opera's month-long (May-Jun) THE BRITISH INVASION opera festival culminates with a three-night performance Face (June 18-20) of the fully staged production of Thomas Ades’ Powder Her Face (1995). A collaboration between Thomas Adès and librettist Philip Hensher, Powder Her Face explores the intersection of gender, politics and power through the prism of the life story of Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll, dubbed the “Dirty Duchess.” In Powder Her Face, Adès plays off the public’s obsession with the tabloid controversy and challenges audiences to reconsider what they think of the Duchess.
Thomas Ades : Powder Her Face
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20 Sep
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Saturday, June 20, 2015 at 9pm Aimard, Benjamin & Friends Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh Snape Maltings Concert Hall,Snape,Suffolk,IP17 1SP United Kingdom +44 (0)1728 687110 http://www.aldeburgh.co.uk enquiries@aldeburgh.co.uk
Stefanovich piano
Isabelle Faust violin
Mark Simpson clarinet
Jean-Guihen Queyras cello
This quick-fire, late-evening concert brings the principal artistic powerhouses of this year’s Festival, Pierre-Laurent Aimard and George Benjamin, together at the piano to play Ravel’s glittering score, which in 2014 provided the resounding orchestral finale of the spectacular outdoor Musicircus event. Fellow Festival resident artists Mark Simpson, Jean-Guihen Queyras and Florent Boffard play Debussy, Isabelle Faust performs Benjamin’s violin miniatures and the premiere of Scottish composer Martin Suckling’s new clarinet trio completes the programme.
Claude Debussy : Première Rhapsodie Claude Debussy : Cello Sonata George Benjamin : Three Miniatures Martin Suckling : Visiones Maurice Ravel : Ma Mère l’Oye
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20 Sep
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20 Sep
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21 Sep
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Sunday, June 21, 2015 at 7.30pm MAXWELL DAVIES Ebb of Winter St Magnus Festival St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall United Kingdom
ANTONIO MÉNDEZ Conductor
JOANNA WEEKS Soprano
CATHERINE BACKHOUSE Mezzo-Soprano
THOMAS WALKER Tenor
ANDREW FOSTER-WILLIAMS Bass
DENISE STOUT Chorus Director
Mozart's Vespers is one of his shorter sacred works and probably best known for its beautiful Laudate Dominum whilst Haydn's The Storm is perhaps a less well-known choral work from the composer's time in London setting the words of Pindar. The Chorus storm leads perfectly to Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony whose fourth movement is yet another tempest surrounded by visions of the bucolic with merry peasant dances and shepherds’ songs. The concert begins with the Orkney première of a recent work by Peter Maxwell Davies reflecting the change of season in spring on these islands and its ever-changing weather.
Peter Maxwell Davies : Ebb of Winter Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Vesperae Solennes de Confessore K. 339 Joseph Haydn : The Storm Hob. XXIVa Ludwig Van Beethoven : Symphony No. 6, Op. 68 (Pastoral)
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23 Sep
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24 Sep
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Wednesday, June 24, 2015 at 7.30pm BBC Symphony Orchestra Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh Snape Maltings Concert Hall,Snape,Suffolk,IP17 1SP United Kingdom +44 (0)1728 687110 http://www.aldeburgh.co.uk enquiries@aldeburgh.co.uk
Alice Coote mezzo-soprano
Tal Rosner video and animation*
Sakari Oramo conductor
It was at a performance of Frank Bridge’s mighty orchestral suite that the young Britten was ‘knocked sideways’. Here it washes against Britten’s own seascapes animated on the big screen by a bold and persuasive video interpretation; Tal Rosner fuses together imagery from urban waterways, using the grit and grandeur of the great seafaring American cities to transpose music so synonymous with Suffolk’s shoreline from the local to the global.
Alice Coote follows her Festival recital with Mahler’s beguiling song cycle, and the serenity of Sibelius’ celebration of the water spirits stands as still water next to the churning currents of Helen Grime’s arresting Siegfried Sassoon-inspired music.
Tal Rosner’s Passacaglia is co-commissioned by Aldeburgh Music and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
Jean Sibelius : The Oceanides Helen Grime : Everyone Sang Gustav Mahler : Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen Frank Bridge : The Sea Benjamin Britten : Four Sea Interludes and Passacaglia
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25 Sep
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Thursday, June 25, 2015 at 7.30pm London Sinfonietta Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh Snape Maltings Concert Hall,Snape,Suffolk,IP17 1SP United Kingdom +44 (0)1728 687110 http://www.aldeburgh.co.uk enquiries@aldeburgh.co.uk
Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano
George Benjamin conductor
Two heavyweight but luminous modern works are at the heart of the London Sinfonietta’s collaboration with George Benjamin and Pierre-Laurent Aimard. Ligeti’s Piano Concerto, now strongly associated with Aimard’s recordings, is filled in its fast movements with pounding cross-rhythms and dizzying virtuosity, while its slow movement yields to a desolate, lamenting abyss that lurks below the composer’s dazzling surface.
‘Dazzling’ is also the key to Benjamin’s At First Light, an evocation inspired by Turner’s painting Norham Castle, Sunrise of a landscape in which all detail is washed out by overpowering light. Birtwistle and Knussen’s works are both titled as ‘songs’, but where Birtwistle’s is a rhythmic moto perpetuo in the vein of Ligeti’s concerto, Knussen’s miniatures are highly lyrical. The UK premiere of Jordan-born Haddad’s mini-concerto for two cellos and ensemble completes the programme.
Harrison Birtwistle : Carmen arcadiae mechanicae perpetuum Oliver Knussen : Songs Without Voices Saed Haddad : In Contradiction for two cellos and ensemble Gyorgy Ligeti : Piano Concerto
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30 Sep
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Tuesday, June 30, 2015 at 7.30 pm
St Leonard’s Church, London Shoreditch High Street United Kingdom
Tickets: n/a Rolf Hind, piano
CoMA London Ensemble, conducted by Gregory Rose
Four new mini piano concertos by Howard Jones, Adam Lewin, Miriam Mackie and Toby Roundell, premiered by Rolf Hind
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1 Oct
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1 Oct
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Wednesday, July 1, 2015 at The Skriker by Caryl Churchill Manchester International Festival Manchester United Kingdom
The cast includes Sarah Amankwah, Harry Attwell, Alex Austin, Hannah Hutch, Martins Imhangbe, Kate Jackson, Stuart Overington, Beatrice Scirocchi, Andrew Sheridan, Jessica Walker, Leah Walker and Owen Whitelaw.
In a broken world two sisters meet an extraordinary creature. The Skriker is a shapeshifter. She can be an old woman, a child, a death portent. She is a faerie come from the Underworld to pursue and entrap them, through time and space, through this world and her own.
One of MIF13's most electrifying moments was Maxine Peake and Sarah Frankcom’s presentation of Shelley’s Peterloo memorial, The Masque of Anarchy performed just yards from the site of the massacre. Fresh from her leading role in Hamlet (2014), Royal Exchange Associate Artist Maxine Peake renews her partnership with Royal Exchange Artistic Director Sarah Frankcom, to play the title role in this landmark revival of Caryl Churchill’s extraordinary collision of ancient fairy story and portrait of a fractured England. This new version will feature specially commissioned music by Nico Muhly and Antony (Antony and the Johnsons).
Dates and Times
Wed 1 July 7:30pm
Thu 2 July 7:30pm
Fri 3 July 7:30pm
Sat 4 July 8pm Not yet on sale
Mon 6 July 7:30pm
Tue 7 July 7:30pm
Wed 8 July 7:30pm
Thu 9 July 7:30pm
Fri 10 July 7:30pm
Sat 11 July 8pm
Sun 12 July 2:30pm
Tue 14 July 7:30pm
Wed 15 July 7:30pm
Thu 16 July 7:30pm Captioned
Fri 17 July 7:30pm Signed
Sat 18 July 2:30pm Audio Described
Sat 18 July 8pm
Nico Muhly : Incidental Music for 'The Striker'
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2 Oct
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Thursday, July 2, 2015 at wonder.land Manchester International Festival Manchester United Kingdom
Set Designer Rae Smith
Projections 59 Productions
Costume Designer Katrina Lindsay
Lighting Designer Paule Constable
Sound Designer Paul Arditti
Choreographer Javier De Frutos
Music Supervisor David Shrubsole
Associate Director James Bonas
The cast includes Sam Archer, Lois Chimimba, Rob Compton, Rosalie Craig, Ivan De Freitas, Luke Fetherston, Hal Fowler, Anna Francolini, Lorraine Graham, Paul Hilton, Karina Hind, Holly James, Sam Mackay, Daisy Maywood, Enyi Okoronkwo, David Page, Golda Rosheuvel, Cydney Uffindell-Phillips and Witney White.
Music Director / Keyboard Tom Deering
Accordion / Keys 2 Ian Watson
Upright Bass / Tuba Richie Hart
Percussion Anothony McVey
Violin / Guitar / Mandolin / Banjo / Ukulele Sarah Freestone
Trombone / Euphonium Liam Kirkman
Woodwind 1 - Flute / Piccolo / Alto Sax / Clarinet Andy Findon
Woodwind 2 - Clarinet / Bass Clarinet / Soprano, Bariton & Tenor Sax Christian Forshaw
wonder.land will visit the National Theatre’s Olivier Theatre in November 2015 and the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris in 2016.
wonder.land is a new musical inspired by Lewis Carroll’s iconic Alice in Wonderland, with music by Damon Albarn and book and lyrics by Moira Buffini (Tamara Drewe, Handbagged). Directed by the National Theatre’s incoming Director, Rufus Norris.
Welcome to wonder.land, where you can be exactly who you want to be.
Aly, 12, loves this extraordinary virtual world. Bullied at school and unhappy at home, wonder.land lets her escape from her parents, from teachers, from herself.
Online, Aly becomes Alice: brave, beautiful and in control. But some of the people she meets — the weird Dum and Dee, the creepy Cheshire Cat, the terrifying Red Queen — seem strangely familiar.
As hard as Aly tries to keep them apart, real life and wonder.land begin to collide in ever more curious and dangerous ways.
wonder.land is designed by Rae Smith, with projections by 59 Productions and lighting by Paule Constable, the design team behind War Horse.
Dates and Times
Mon 29 June 7:30pm Preview
Tue 30 June 7:30pm Preview
Wed 1 July 7:30pm Preview
Thu 2 July 7:30pm
Fri 3 July 7:30pm
Sat 4 July 7:30pm
Sun 5 July 2:30pm
Tue 7 July 7:30pm
Wed 8 July 2:30pm
Wed 8 July 7:30pm Captioned
Thu 9 July 7:30pm Signed
Fri 10 July 7:30pm Audio Described
Sat 11 July 2:30pm
Sat 11 July 7:30pm
Sun 12 July 2:30pm
Damon Albarn : wonder.land
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3 Oct
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Friday, July 3, 2015 at 6pm SVADBA Festival d'Aix en Provence
United Kingdom http://www.festival-aix.com/en
Musical direction: Dáirine Ní Mheadhra
Stage direction: Ted Huffman and Zack Winokur
Costumes and stage design: Samal Blak
Video: Sven Ortel
Light : Marcus Doshi
Dramaturgy and stage assistant: Antonio Cuenca Ruiz
Vocal coach and percussions: John Hess
Language coach: Sandra Mila
Video assistant: Kate Ducey
Milica: Florie Valiquette*
Danica: Liesbeth Devos
Lena: Jennifer Davis
Zora: Pauline Sikirdji
Nada: Andrea Ludwig
Ljubica: Mireille Lebel
Svadba was originally commissioned and produced by Dáirine Ní Mheadhra and John Hess of Queen of Puddings Music Theatre in Toronto
New production of the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and of the Académie européenne de musique
In coproduction with Angers Nantes Opéra, les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Festival Ljubljana, Ars Musica and Sarajevo Winter
ARTICLE: Bernard Foccroulle writes on Svadba's rehearsals (in French)
PHOTOS: Photos album of Svadba's rehearsals
AUDIO: Audio excerpts of Svadba's rehearsals
Tomorrow Milica will be getting married. The night before the ceremony, she sings and plays with her girlfriends. They dance, they argue, they make fun of the boys, go swimming and eventually say farewell. Throughout this hen night, they burst into songs, which possess the husky spontaneity and the rough charm of folklore verse but are transfigured by the imaginative writing of the Serbian composer living in Canada, Ana Sokolović. Svadba – which means marriage – is a musical and theatrical feast, both poignant and playful. After a huge success in the United States, this chamber opera for six a capella women’s voice will be given at the Festival d’Aix as a new production which will also be the European premiere of the scenic version. Long live the bride!
On 3, 5, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14 and 16 July 2015 at 6pm
Ana Sokolovic : Svadba
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4 Oct
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4 Oct
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Saturday, July 4, 2015 at 7.30pm The Immortal Manchester International Festival Manchester United Kingdom
Conductor Juanjo Mena
EXAUDI
Director James Weeks
Manchester Chamber Choir
Chorus master Justin Doyle
Requiem
Soprano Ruby Hughes
Mezzo soprano Clara Mouriz
Tenor Steve Davislim
Bass baritone Jochen Kupfer
The Immortal
Librettist Melanie Challenger
Baritone Mark Stone
Manchester International Festival presents the world première of The Immortal, a new work for orchestra and chorus by one of Britain’s brightest young composers, Mark Simpson.
Inspired by John Gray’s book The Immortalization Commission, Simpson’s work explores the obsession with death that lies at the heart of the human experience.
Drawing on the so-called ‘Cross Correspondences’, the extraordinary scripts of a series of séances undertaken in the first decades of the 20th century, this oratorio portrays the crisis of faith experienced by Frederick Myers, president of the Society of Psychical Research. Myers’ attempt to prove the existence of an afterlife was made more poignant by his own desperate hope of reuniting with the love of his life, whose untimely death haunted both his life and his work.
Mark Simpson has worked with librettist Melanie Challenger to create The Immortal, which will be performed by the BBC Philharmonic, EXAUDI and Manchester Chamber Choir with solo baritone Mark Stone. The Immortal will be complemented by a performance of Mozart’s Requiem, the composer’s poignant and prescient anticipation of his own death.
Mark Simpson : The Immortal
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