Name: The Blue Woman
Start: 2022-07-06T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-09-09T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Royal Opera House

Organization

Stage director

Katie Mitchell

Conductor

Jamie Man

Video designer

Grant Gee

Sound designer

Matthew Fairclough

Elaine Mitchener

Woman 1

Lucy Schaufer

Woman 2

Gweneth Ann Rand

Woman 3

Rosie Middleton

Woman 4

Set designer

Lizzie Clachan

Costume designer

Lighting designer

James Farncombe

Assistant Conductor

Berrak Dyer

Music Director

Jessica Cottis

Assistant Director

Emma Doherty

Dramaturge

Ellie Horne

Stage Manager

Bonnie Poole

Deputy Stage Manager

Emma Firth

Surtitles

Ruth Hansford

Singer

Louise McMonagle

Cello 1

Su-a Lee

Cello 2

Tamaki Sugimoto

Cello 3

Clare O’Connell

Cello 4

Angela Wai Nok Hui

Percussionist

Eve Ponsonby

Actor

Eleanor Henderson

Voice Over Artist

Royal Opera House

Britten Pears Arts

Béarla

The Blue Woman

Snape

United Kingdom

Snape Maltings Concert Hall

London

Public

Private

Approved

The Blue Woman Bowler

The Blue Woman is a new opera directed by Katie Mitchell that explores the psychological aftermath of sexual violence on women. 

Facilitated by Lisa Peck, this Insight brings together composer Laura Bowler, librettist Laura Lomas, director Katie Mitchell and singer Gweneth Ann Rand, to discuss the making of this work and open an important conversation about how opera deals with violence against women.

A powerful new opera by award-winning director Katie Mitchell, co-produced by Britten Pears Arts and The Royal Opera House.

The Blue Woman is a brand new opera composed by Laura Bowler with librettist Laura Lomas. It is a though-provoking and poetic work, and sparks a conversation about how operas deal with violence against women, and our modern day understanding of this reality.

The Blue Woman excavates the interior landscape of one woman, who has experienced a post-traumatic shattering of self as a consequence of being raped. It follows her as she searches a nameless city looking for what was taken.

Wrapped around the central spine of the story are fragments of text, from other women of different ages, who have all been victims of sexual violence. Formally experimental, the structure of the opera mirrors the journey of fracture and reform that the Woman goes on.

The Blue Woman provokes a conversation between how operas deal with violence against women and our modern day understanding of this reality.

English

The Blue Woman by Bowler, Ó (2022/2022), Faoi stiúir Katie Mitchell,, Seoltóir Jamie Man, Royal Opera House, London, United Kingdom

Creidmheasanna feidhmíochta (Foireann & Criú )

Caitheadh

Criú

Comhléiritheoir

Clár, Eolas & Achoimre

Léirmheasanna

Físeáin

Grianghraif

Tuilleadh léitheoireachta

Dátaí & Ionaid Feidhmíochta

Ionaid