Organization

Direction d'orchestre

Ryan Wigglesworth

Elizabeth Kenny

Mise en scène

Polly Graham

Mezzo-soprano

Julia Portela Piñón

Agnes

Arianna

Royal Academy Opera

ROYAL ACADEMY OPERA TRIPLE BILL

Londres

Royaume-Uni

Lamento d'Arianna Monteverdi (+2 More)

Public

Lamentation d'Ariane

Ariane à Naxos

WITCH

Valide

This triple bill centres around stories of women. Monteverdi’s Lamento d’Arianna and the bustling Prologue to Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos both look at the story of Ariadne – who was abandoned by Theseus on Naxos – but from very different perspectives. Monteverdi’s searing vocal writing takes us to the heart of Ariadne’s pain and anger, while Strauss and librettist Hofmannsthal dance around the story with a meta-theatrical narrative. WITCH, a newly commissioned opera by Freya Waley-Cohen with a libretto by Ruth Mariner, inspired by the occult poetry of Rebecca Tamás, offers two interwoven narratives that reclaim the idea of female agency and desire. This is a magical realist coming-of-age story, set against the backdrop of the historical horror of what it has meant to be a woman fighting for power and freedom.

English

ROYAL ACADEMY OPERA TRIPLE BILL by Monteverdi, Strauss, Waley-Cohen, mer. 23 mars 2022, Du (2022/2022), Dirigé par Polly Graham,, Chef d'orchestre Ryan Wigglesworth, Elizabeth Kenny

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