Company: Scottish OperaFrom today| Date | Event | Composers, Works, Performers |
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| Friday 30-Aug-13 07:15pm |
 King's Theatre, EdinburghAmerican Lulu Edinburgh International Festival |
Scottish Opera Angel Blue, Soprano: Lulu Jacqui Dankworth, Voice: Eleanor Donald Maxwell, Bass: Dr Bloom Robert Winslade Anderson, Bass: Clarence Jonathan Stoughton, Tenor: Jimmy Paul Curievici, Tenor: The Painter Simon Wilding, Bass: Athlete Gerry Cornelius, Conductor John Fulljames, Director Paul Reeves, Bass: Professor/Bass: Banker/Bass: Commissioner |
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| King's Theatre, Edinburgh, 2 Leven Street, Edinburgh EH3 9, United Kingdom Friday 30-Aug-13 07:15pm American Lulu Seductress, victim, manipulator: Lulu lives off men as both tortured and torturer, purveyor of ecstasy and angel of death. Caught up in greedy games and seedy schemes, and surrounded by lovers driven to despair, Lulu makes an inexorable rise to the highest levels of power, money and fame. But her descent is just as swift. Twenty years on, as the scarred Lulu looks back on her life, she faces a squalid history of sex, murder and violence. Award-winning Austrian composer Olga Neuwirth has radically reworked Alban Berg’s unfinished 1934 opera for the 21st century, setting it against the backdrop of the US civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s and transporting audiences to the smoky jazz clubs of the Deep South. Neuwirth re-interprets Berg’s score for a jazz-inspired ‘Las Vegas’-style ensemble while also integrating her own distinctive voice to make a sound world that casts new light on the whole opera. This new production is conducted by leading contemporary music specialist Gerry Cornelius and staged by the acclaimed British director John Fulljames, with The Orchestra of Scottish Opera. A co-production with The Opera Group, Scottish Opera, Bregenzer Festspiele and Young Vic in association with the London Sinfonietta. Co-commissioned by The Opera Group and Komische Oper Berlin. Image credit: AKA Angel Blue, Soprano: Lulu Jacqui Dankworth, Voice: Eleanor Donald Maxwell, Bass: Dr Bloom Robert Winslade Anderson, Bass: Clarence Jonathan Stoughton, Tenor: Jimmy Paul Curievici, Tenor: The Painter Simon Wilding, Bass: Athlete Gerry Cornelius, Conductor John Fulljames, Director Paul Reeves, Bass: Professor/Bass: Banker/Bass: Commissioner | ||
| Saturday 31-Aug-13 07:15pm |
King's Theatre, Edinburgh American Lulu Edinburgh International Festival |
Scottish Opera Angel Blue, Soprano: Lulu Jacqui Dankworth, Voice: Eleanor Donald Maxwell, Bass: Dr Bloom Robert Winslade Anderson, Bass: Clarence Jonathan Stoughton, Tenor: Jimmy Paul Curievici, Tenor: The Painter Simon Wilding, Bass: Athlete Gerry Cornelius, Conductor John Fulljames, Director Paul Reeves, Bass: Professor/Bass: Banker/Bass: Commissioner |
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| King's Theatre, Edinburgh, 2 Leven Street, Edinburgh EH3 9, United Kingdom Saturday 31-Aug-13 07:15pm American Lulu Seductress, victim, manipulator: Lulu lives off men as both tortured and torturer, purveyor of ecstasy and angel of death. Caught up in greedy games and seedy schemes, and surrounded by lovers driven to despair, Lulu makes an inexorable rise to the highest levels of power, money and fame. But her descent is just as swift. Twenty years on, as the scarred Lulu looks back on her life, she faces a squalid history of sex, murder and violence. Award-winning Austrian composer Olga Neuwirth has radically reworked Alban Berg’s unfinished 1934 opera for the 21st century, setting it against the backdrop of the US civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s and transporting audiences to the smoky jazz clubs of the Deep South. Neuwirth re-interprets Berg’s score for a jazz-inspired ‘Las Vegas’-style ensemble while also integrating her own distinctive voice to make a sound world that casts new light on the whole opera. This new production is conducted by leading contemporary music specialist Gerry Cornelius and staged by the acclaimed British director John Fulljames, with The Orchestra of Scottish Opera. A co-production with The Opera Group, Scottish Opera, Bregenzer Festspiele and Young Vic in association with the London Sinfonietta. Co-commissioned by The Opera Group and Komische Oper Berlin. Image credit: AKA Angel Blue, Soprano: Lulu Jacqui Dankworth, Voice: Eleanor Donald Maxwell, Bass: Dr Bloom Robert Winslade Anderson, Bass: Clarence Jonathan Stoughton, Tenor: Jimmy Paul Curievici, Tenor: The Painter Simon Wilding, Bass: Athlete Gerry Cornelius, Conductor John Fulljames, Director Paul Reeves, Bass: Professor/Bass: Banker/Bass: Commissioner | ||
