Organization

Singer

Jane Sheldon

soloist

Stage director

Imara Savage

Conductor

Jack Symonds

Costume designer

Elizabeth Gadsby

Set designer

Video designer

Mike Daly

Lighting designer

Alexander Berlage

Sydney Chamber Opera

La Passion de Simone -  (The Passion of Simone)

Sydney City

Australia

Carriageworks

La Passion de Simone Saariaho

Public

The Passion of Simone

Approved

Sydney Chamber Opera presents the story of philosopher, political activist and mystic Simone Weil. Albert Camus wrote that Weil was “the only great spirit of...

Passion and philosophy collide in a glimmering ascent to enlightenment.

Simone Weil bestrode the 20th century as a figure of impossible grace. Acclaimed Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho tells her story through music in this deeply spiritual work, never before seen in Australia.
Saariaho’s score is luminous and coruscating, blending a single incredible soloist with the voices of The Song Company and nineteen virtuoso instrumentalists.

Star soprano Jane Sheldon (The Howling Girls, An Index of Metals) leads the audience through Weil’s extraordinary life, from her rejection of labour during World War II to her exile into self-imposed starvation in protest of the Holocaust’s atrocity. Director Imara Savage and designer Elizabeth Gadsby, the creative team behind the acclaimed Fly Away Peter, return to SCO for this shimmering meditation on defiance in the face of inhumanity.

English

The Passion of Simone by Saariaho, From (2019/2019), Directed by Imara Savage,, Conductor Jack Symonds, Carriageworks, Sydney City, Australia

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