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Britten Sinfonia

Orchestra

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House

Royal Opera House

Conductor

Edward Reeve

Singer

Baritone

Edmund Danon

Satan

Soprano

Valentina Puskás

Éléonore

Veena Akama-Makia

La Mère

Liam John Hill

Dancer

THE QUEEN

THE SWINEHERD

FIRST ATTENDANT

Jonah Halton

SECOND ATTENDANT

Aisha Weise-Forbes

THE QUEEN (BOXER)

Larmes De Couteau/ Full Moon In March

London

United Kingdom

Linbury Studio Theater

Public

The Tears of the Knife

A Full Moon in March

Keerthi Raj

Approved

Britten Sinfonia joins The Royal Opera House for a double bill of chamber operas by Martinů and American composer John Harbison.

Dada meets foxtrot, jazz, ragtime, and blues in Larmes de couteau, the surreal one-act opera by Bohuslav Martinů. This is paired alongside John Harbison's unsettling, fantastical opera Full Moon in March, adapted from a late, symbol-laden play by WB Yeats and set in an unspecified, mythic kingdom. 

Harbison's sinister and moody musical palette reflects Yeats' mysticism, and the influence of Celtic mythology on Yeats' writing shows up in the opera's plot of a Queen who promises herself and her realm to any worthy suitor, but who beheads the filthy swineherd upon his attempt to seduce her.

English

Larmes De Couteau/ Full Moon In March by Martinů, Harbison, From (2024/2024), Conductor Edward Reeve, Royal Opera House, London, United Kingdom

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