Name: The Lighthouse
Start: 2012-11-24T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2012-11-28T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Carriageworks

Organization

Singer

Daniel Macey

No role specified

Mitchell Riley

Alexander Knight

Conductor

Jack Symonds

Stage director

Kip Williams

Costume designer

Michael Hankin

Set designer

Sydney Chamber Opera

The Lighthouse

Sydney City

Australia

Carriageworks

Bay 20

The Lighthouse Davies,PM

Public

Approved

Showreel for The Lighthouse by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
Conductor - Jack Symonds
Director - Kip Williams
Set and Costume Design - Michael Hankin
Lighting Design - Nicholas Rayment
With: Daniel Macey, Mitchell Riley, Alexander Knight, movement  ensemble and orchestra

Sydney Chamber Opera presents Peter Maxwell Davies’ 1979 opera The Lighthouse, a modern classic of the genre. Based on a true story, this haunting tale of three youthful lighthouse keepers’ isolated descent into madness and mysterious disappearance has all the psychological intensity and suspense to rival Britten’s The Turn of the Screw or Kubrick’s film The Shining.

With a charismatic all-male cast and virtuosic 12-piece chamber orchestra featuring honky-tonk and banjo, SCO tackles chilling music of “abundant atmosphere and menacing momentum” (The Guardian). In 75 electrifying minutes, the composer pushes the instruments and voices to their extremes, ratcheting up the tension in a terrifying climax.

Directed by young theatre sensation Kip Williams (Sydney Theatre Company’s Under Milk Wood  and the 2013 Romeo & Juliet), SCO’s atmospheric production focuses on psychological drama and the uneasy relationship between the three men, with a choreographed movement ensemble of interlocked bodies evoking the turmoil of the sea.

English

The Lighthouse by Davies, Wed 28 Nov 2012, From (2012/2012), Directed by Kip Williams,, Conductor Jack Symonds, Carriageworks, Sydney City, Australia

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