Name: Agreed
Start: 2019-03-01T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2019-03-03T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Opera House

Admin

Organization

Singer

Zara Mcfarlane

Kronos

Nazan Fikret

Elin

Michael Wallace

Alex

Louise Winter

Maya

Tom Scott-Cowell

Korimako

Conductor

Howard Moody

Stage director

Simon Iorio

Set designer

Cordelia Chisholm

Lighting designer

Paul Pyant

Chorus master

Lee Reynolds

Glyndebourne

Agreed

United Kingdom

Opera House

Ebert Room

A new opera about love, loss and divided lands.

Alex, leader of Orientis, has divided his people, casting out many to live on the island of Aquila. This includes Maya, his own mother. In the wake of a murder, the two communities are brought together again and Maya returns. In fear, Alex is driven to new extremes and a forbidden boundary is drawn through the water. Yet Alex’s daughter Elin has fallen in love with Korimako from Aquila and in a quest to be reunited with him and her grandmother, she attempts the dangerous journey. From what follows, unrest spirals and the conscience of the people and their leader is forced to the surface.

The opera is brought to life by a multi-genre score composed by Howard Moody and includes elements of classical, world and jazz music. The chorus of 75 local auditioned singers are an active, shaping force of the drama, expressing the emotional effects of separation and political divide. Their music is woven together and led by five professional singers, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the OAE’s Ann and Peter Law Experience scheme who play alongside local young talented instrumentalists.

MUSIC BY
Howard Moody

LIBRETTO BY
Anna Moody

CONDUCTOR
Howard Moody

DIRECTOR
Simon Iorio

DESIGNER
Cordelia Chisholm

LIGHTING DESIGNER
Paul Pyant

MOVEMENT DIRECTOR
Caitlin Fretwell Walsh

FIGHT DIRECTOR
Philip d’Orléans

ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR/CHORUS MASTER & CONDUCTOR PERFORMANCE FOR SCHOOLS (27 February)
Lee Reynolds

MUSIC PREPARATION
Caroline Jaya-Ratnam
Charlotte Forrest
Ashley Beauchamp
Nicholas Bosworth

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
Morgan Richards

CAST
KORIMAKO Tom Scott-Cowell
ELIN Nazan Fikret
ALEX Michael Wallace
KRONOS Zara McFarlane
MAYA Louise Winter
SPIRIT OF ELIN Ellyn Hebron

COMMUNITY CHORUS FEATURING GLYNDEBOURNE YOUTH OPERA

ORCHESTRA OF THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT

GLYNDEBOURNE YOUTH ORCHESTRA

ON STAGE MUSICIANS

VIOLIN Anna Cooper
GUITAR Adrian Zolotuhin
KORA Sura Susso
UDU Buster Birch

Agreed is made possible with the support of MariaMarina Foundation, The Chalk Cliff Trust, The Charles Peel Charitable Trust, John S Cohen Foundation, The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust, The Leigh Trust, Newby Trust, The Radcliffe Trust, RVW Trust, Jules and Cheryl Burns, Martin and Dani Clarke, Wendy and Nicholas Heesom, Davina Hodson, Joanna Dickson Leach, Mr Frederik Paulsen, George and Patti White, Mark and Rosamund Williams, and in memory of Jeffrey Vaughan Martin through Glyndebourne’s New Generation Programme.

Glyndebourne’s education programme is supported using public funding by Arts Council England.

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Production booklet

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