Name: Britten SinfoniaPagrav Dance: Holst’s Sāvitri
Start: 2022-05-04T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-05-04T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Barbican Centre

Organization

Admin

Conductor

Mark Elder

Soprano

Kathryn Rudge

Sāvitri

Tenor

Anthony Gregory

Satyavān

Bass

Ross Ramgobin

Instrumentalist

Kuljit Bhamra

John Parricelli

Jacqueline Shave

Choreographer

Urja Desai Thakore

Britten Sinfonia

Orchestra

Ballet

Pagrav Dance Company

Barbican Centre

Britten Sinfonia/Pagrav Dance: Holst’s Sāvitri

London

United Kingdom

Britten Sinfonia/Pagrav Dance: Holst’s Sāvitri: Savîtrî Holst (+3 More)

Public

Savitri

Sea Sketches

Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge, op. 10

Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda, Op.26

Approved

Britten Sinfonia and Sir Mark Elder join forces with Pagrav Dance Company, fusing classical Indian Kathak dance styles with contemporary storytelling to bring to life Holst’s chamber opera Sāvitri.

Sāvitri is a musing on love and death, a tale from the Mahabharata of the eponymous heroine’s battle to save her husband. This new interpretation of Holst’s rarely performed opera has been conceived in collaboration with choreographer Urja Desai Thakore - one of the UK’s leading kathak practitioners - and her ground-breaking Pagrav Dance Company, using dance to shine new light on an ancient story. 

The programme also features Holst’s setting of hymns from one of Hinduism’s most important works, the Rig Veda, alongside music by Grace Williams and Benjamin Britten, and from Jaqueline Shave’s longstanding trio with tabla virtuoso Kuljit Bhamra guitarist John Parricelli.

English

Creidmheasanna feidhmíochta (Foireann & Criú )

Caitheadh

Ionstraimíocht

Criú

Ensemble

Comhléiritheoir