Name: The Lighthouse
Start: 2001-03-08T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2001-03-27T00:00:00.000Z
Location: De Munt

Organization

Conductor

Etienne Siebens

Stage director

Ronny Lauwers

Set designer

Benoît Dugardyn

Costume designer

Lionel Lesire

Lighting designer

Ace McCarron

Tenor

Michael Bennett

1. Officer

Baritone

Robin Adams

2. Officer

Bass

Kelvin Thomas

3. Officer

Muziektheater Transparant

The Lighthouse

Amsterdam

Netherlands

International Theater Amsterdam (Stadsschouwburg)

Bruges

Belgium

Stadsschouwburg

Leuven

Brussels

De Munt

The Lighthouse Davies,PM

Public

Approved

The inspiration for this music theater work comes from a book by Craig Mair about the Stevenson family from Edinburgh.

This family, in addition to the well-known writer Robert Louis Stevenson, produced several generations of lighthouse and harbor engineers.

In December 1900, the supply ship Hesperus, home port at Stromness, Orkney, set out on its routine voyage to the Flannan Isles Lighthouse on the far edge of the Hebrides. On arrival, the lighthouse was empty. The three beds and the table seemed to have been left in a hurry and although the lamp was out, it still worked perfectly. The men had vanished from the face of the earth.

“Why and how the three men disappeared is still a mystery. My opera does not solve the mystery, but gives a possible sequence of what happened when the three men were locked in their lighthouse, which was continuously ravaged by storms long after they expected to be relieved.”
Peter Maxwell Davies

English

The Lighthouse by Davies, Fri 09 Mar 2001, From (2001/2001), Directed by Ronny Lauwers,, Conductor Etienne Siebens, De Munt, Brussels, Belgium

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