Organization

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Ilan Volkov

Stage director

Elkhanah Pulitzer

Singer

Julie Mathevet

Soloist

Jarrett Ott

Alan Oke

Davóne Tines

BBC Symphony Orchestra

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BBC Singers

Orchestra

Barbican Centre

David Lang’s prisoner of the state

London

United Kingdom

Barbican Concert Hall

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Prisoner of the state

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Follow one woman’s personal struggle against political oppression in this dark, seething and engrossing new minimalist opera from the co-founder of pioneerin...

David Lang’s prisoner of the state: Prisoner of the state Lang, David

Follow one woman’s personal struggle against political oppression in this dark, seething and engrossing new minimalist opera from the co-founder of pioneering new music collective Bang on a Can.

215 years after the first performance of Beethoven’s Fidelio, David Lang’s fresh view of the opera’s story – and reflection on its enduring power – receives its European premiere. Beethoven loved the idea of freedom, but Lang's prisoner of the state re-examines Fidelio and discovers that in the 21st century, the issues that it raises about gender and personal identity are more than a match for the ideals of the enlightenment.

Lang’s ability to glimpse the emotional heart and soul of a story within his focused, distilled and highly absorbing music has won him a Pulitzer Prize. In this opera designed for performance with an orchestra on stage, both instrumentalists and audience bear witness to the story of a woman striving to rescue her partner from unjust imprisonment.

English

David Lang’s prisoner of the state by Lang, David, From (2020/2020), Directed by Elkhanah Pulitzer,, Conductor Ilan Volkov, Barbican Centre, London, United Kingdom

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