Name: New Dark Age
Start: 2020-10-24T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2020-10-24T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Royal Opera House

Organization

Royal Ballet and Opera

Soprano

Nadine Benjamin

Soprano 1

Anna Dennis

Soprano 2

Mezzo-soprano

Susan Bickley

Vídeo

Grant Gee

Designer de Som

Simon Hendry

Diretor de Palco

Katie Mitchell

Maestro

Natalie Murray Beale

Designer de Iluminação

Adam Silverman

Cenógrafo

Vicki Mortimer

inglês

New Dark Age

Londres

Reino Unido

Royal Opera House

The cast and creative team behind The Royal Opera's The Knife of Dawn discuss the process of creating this new opera.

Hannah Kendall’s one-act chamber opera The Knife of Dawn tells the gripping story of Guyanese political activist and poet Martin Carter as he reaches the 28th – and most critical – day of his hunger strike in protest at British rule. Will poetry or death be the most effective way to serve his country?

A one-man monologue performed by Peter Brathwaite, The Knife of Dawn swings from despair to hope and everything in between in an exhilaratingly intense depiction of the personal struggles and hallucinations of a politically-engaged artist.

Kendall and librettist Tessa McWatt, who share their Guyanese heritage with Carter, have created a chamber opera of great beauty and intricacy for small Orchestra – while break-through director Ola Ince creates a visionary, total theatre production for the Royal Opera House stage.

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