Performance

Venue	Barbican Centre
	Other spaces: Barbican Theatre,Barbican Hall. Guildhall School of Music and Drama Theatre, Cinema1,Cinema2,Gallery, Silk Street Theatre
Town	West End
County	Greater London
From	10th July 2007
To	12th July 2007
When	20:00
Prices	From £7.00. To £30.00. + Superseat
What is currently on at Barbican Centre (V371)

La Passion de Simone

T235976665
Kaija Saariaho's oratorio for soprano, choir, electronics and orchestra, with a text by Lebanese writer Amin Maalouf, penetrates the life and spiritual world of French-Jewish feminist philosopher, mathematician and mystic Simone Weil who, in 1943, made the ultimate sacrifice, dying of starvation after refusing to eat more food that her fellow countrymen in the Nazi death camps. This work was composed for Dawn Upshaw who performs it here for the first time.

Author

Kaija Saariaho

Archive :: production:T235976665, concert:S0184510920, venue:V371

A Musical Journey in Fifteen Stations

UK Premiere. Fully-staged performance. 90 mins no interval. Commissioned by New Crowned Hope (Vienna), Barbican Centre, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and Los Angeles Philharmonic, Barbican Hall. Part of New Crowned Hope

Reviews

No UKTW or User reviews available.

Company

Other	Amin Maalouf (text)
Director	Peter Sellars
Conductor	Robert Spano
Company	City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Company	London Voices
Costume	Martin Pakledinaz
Lighting	James F. Ingalls
Performer	Dawn Upshaw (soprano)
Performer	Michael Schumacher (dancer)

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