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Thursday, July 2, 2015 at
wonder.land
Manchester International Festival
Manchester
United Kingdom
Set Designer Rae Smith
Projections 59 Productions
Costume Designer Katrina Lindsay
Lighting Designer Paule Constable
Sound Designer Paul Arditti
Choreographer Javier De Frutos
Music Supervisor David Shrubsole
Associate Director James Bonas
The cast includes Sam Archer, Lois Chimimba, Rob Compton, Rosalie Craig, Ivan De Freitas, Luke Fetherston, Hal Fowler, Anna Francolini, Lorraine Graham, Paul Hilton, Karina Hind, Holly James, Sam Mackay, Daisy Maywood, Enyi Okoronkwo, David Page, Golda Rosheuvel, Cydney Uffindell-Phillips and Witney White.
Music Director / Keyboard Tom Deering
Accordion / Keys 2 Ian Watson
Upright Bass / Tuba Richie Hart
Percussion Anothony McVey
Violin / Guitar / Mandolin / Banjo / Ukulele Sarah Freestone
Trombone / Euphonium Liam Kirkman
Woodwind 1 - Flute / Piccolo / Alto Sax / Clarinet Andy Findon
Woodwind 2 - Clarinet / Bass Clarinet / Soprano, Bariton & Tenor Sax Christian Forshaw
wonder.land will visit the National Theatre’s Olivier Theatre in November 2015 and the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris in 2016.
wonder.land is a new musical inspired by Lewis Carroll’s iconic Alice in Wonderland, with music by Damon Albarn and book and lyrics by Moira Buffini (Tamara Drewe, Handbagged). Directed by the National Theatre’s incoming Director, Rufus Norris.
Welcome to wonder.land, where you can be exactly who you want to be.
Aly, 12, loves this extraordinary virtual world. Bullied at school and unhappy at home, wonder.land lets her escape from her parents, from teachers, from herself.
Online, Aly becomes Alice: brave, beautiful and in control. But some of the people she meets — the weird Dum and Dee, the creepy Cheshire Cat, the terrifying Red Queen — seem strangely familiar.
As hard as Aly tries to keep them apart, real life and wonder.land begin to collide in ever more curious and dangerous ways.
wonder.land is designed by Rae Smith, with projections by 59 Productions and lighting by Paule Constable, the design team behind War Horse.
Dates and Times
Mon 29 June 7:30pm Preview
Tue 30 June 7:30pm Preview
Wed 1 July 7:30pm Preview
Thu 2 July 7:30pm
Fri 3 July 7:30pm
Sat 4 July 7:30pm
Sun 5 July 2:30pm
Tue 7 July 7:30pm
Wed 8 July 2:30pm
Wed 8 July 7:30pm Captioned
Thu 9 July 7:30pm Signed
Fri 10 July 7:30pm Audio Described
Sat 11 July 2:30pm
Sat 11 July 7:30pm
Sun 12 July 2:30pm
Damon Albarn : wonder.land
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3 Mar
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Friday, July 3, 2015 at 6pm
SVADBA
Festival d'Aix en Provence
United Kingdom
http://www.festival-aix.com/en
Musical direction: Dáirine Ní Mheadhra
Stage direction: Ted Huffman and Zack Winokur
Costumes and stage design: Samal Blak
Video: Sven Ortel
Light : Marcus Doshi
Dramaturgy and stage assistant: Antonio Cuenca Ruiz
Vocal coach and percussions: John Hess
Language coach: Sandra Mila
Video assistant: Kate Ducey
Milica: Florie Valiquette*
Danica: Liesbeth Devos
Lena: Jennifer Davis
Zora: Pauline Sikirdji
Nada: Andrea Ludwig
Ljubica: Mireille Lebel
Svadba was originally commissioned and produced by Dáirine Ní Mheadhra and John Hess of Queen of Puddings Music Theatre in Toronto
New production of the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and of the Académie européenne de musique
In coproduction with Angers Nantes Opéra, les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Festival Ljubljana, Ars Musica and Sarajevo Winter
ARTICLE: Bernard Foccroulle writes on Svadba's rehearsals (in French)
PHOTOS: Photos album of Svadba's rehearsals
AUDIO: Audio excerpts of Svadba's rehearsals
Tomorrow Milica will be getting married. The night before the ceremony, she sings and plays with her girlfriends. They dance, they argue, they make fun of the boys, go swimming and eventually say farewell. Throughout this hen night, they burst into songs, which possess the husky spontaneity and the rough charm of folklore verse but are transfigured by the imaginative writing of the Serbian composer living in Canada, Ana Sokolović. Svadba – which means marriage – is a musical and theatrical feast, both poignant and playful. After a huge success in the United States, this chamber opera for six a capella women’s voice will be given at the Festival d’Aix as a new production which will also be the European premiere of the scenic version. Long live the bride!
On 3, 5, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14 and 16 July 2015 at 6pm
Ana Sokolovic : Svadba
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4 Mar
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Saturday, July 4, 2015 at 7.30pm
The Immortal
Manchester International Festival
Manchester
United Kingdom
Conductor Juanjo Mena
EXAUDI
Director James Weeks
Manchester Chamber Choir
Chorus master Justin Doyle
Requiem
Soprano Ruby Hughes
Mezzo soprano Clara Mouriz
Tenor Steve Davislim
Bass baritone Jochen Kupfer
The Immortal
Librettist Melanie Challenger
Baritone Mark Stone
Manchester International Festival presents the world première of The Immortal, a new work for orchestra and chorus by one of Britain’s brightest young composers, Mark Simpson.
Inspired by John Gray’s book The Immortalization Commission, Simpson’s work explores the obsession with death that lies at the heart of the human experience.
Drawing on the so-called ‘Cross Correspondences’, the extraordinary scripts of a series of séances undertaken in the first decades of the 20th century, this oratorio portrays the crisis of faith experienced by Frederick Myers, president of the Society of Psychical Research. Myers’ attempt to prove the existence of an afterlife was made more poignant by his own desperate hope of reuniting with the love of his life, whose untimely death haunted both his life and his work.
Mark Simpson has worked with librettist Melanie Challenger to create The Immortal, which will be performed by the BBC Philharmonic, EXAUDI and Manchester Chamber Choir with solo baritone Mark Stone. The Immortal will be complemented by a performance of Mozart’s Requiem, the composer’s poignant and prescient anticipation of his own death.
Mark Simpson : The Immortal
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8 Mar
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Wednesday, July 8, 2015 at
THE MONSTER IN THE MAZE
Festival d'Aix en Provence
United Kingdom
http://www.festival-aix.com/en
Musical direction: Sir Simon Rattle
Stage direction (semi-staged version): Marie-Ève Signeyrole*
Stage design: Fabien Teigné
Light Philippe: Berthomé
Theseus: Damien Bigourdan
Theseus' mother: Lucie Roche*
Dedalus: Damien Pass*
Minos: Miloud Khétib
Chorus: Amateur choristers (children, teenagers and adults)
Chorus Director: Simon Halsey
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra and Mediterranean Youth Orchestra
The King of Crete has defeated Greece. He imposes a terrible tribute on the vanquished population: each year the city of Athens has to send young men who will be thrown into Dedalus’s labyrinth and eventually be devoured by the beast locked up in it, the notorious minotaur, half-man, half-bull. Appropriating this epic drama, British composer Jonathan Dove has written an opera for the young and the old, interpreted by a handful of soloists, a youth orchestra that will be trained with the help of the London Symphony Orchestra musicians, and 300 amateur choristers from the region of Aix, including children, teenagers and adults. Conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, all embark on an adventure which promises to breathe much life and spirit into this great mythological saga. A pedagogical project par excellence, this performance will be the culmination of a series of workshops for amateur choristers, organised throughout the year by the Festival’s Passerelles department.
On 8 July 2015 at 8pm and on 9 July 2015 at 11am
Jonathan Dove : The Monster in the Maze
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