The Corridor/Semper Dowland, sempter dolens

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Theatre of Melancholy - T02038796369 Commissioned and produced by the Aldeburgh Festival and Southbank Centre, in association with the London Sinfonietta and Bregenz FestivalProducer Aldeburgh Festival. Producer Southbank Centre. Producer Bregenz Festival. Company London Sinfonietta. Conductor Ryan Wigglesworth. Director Peter Gill. Design Alison Chitty. Lighting Paul Pyany. Performer Elizabeth Artherton (soprano). Performer Mark Padmore (tenor). Director Peter Gill. Design Alison Chitty. Lighting Paul Pyant. Performer Elizabeth Atherton. Performer Mark Padmore.
6 Jul 09 to 7 Jul 09	Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L01373179431
12 Jun 09 to 18 Jun 09	Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Aldeburgh :: V75 listing details L01174095499

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Concert :: The Corridor: a scena for soprano, tenor and six instruments further explores the Orpheus myth, which has been a recurring theme in Birtwistle’s work since the early 1970s. The character of Eurydice, is at the centre of this re-telling and Orpheus is sung off-stage. Birtwistle has worked again with librettist David Harsent on The Corridor, with whom he scored huge operatic successes with Gawain and The Minotaur. The Corridor freeze-frames the devastating moment when Orpheus turns to look back at Eurydice as they leave the underworld and loses her forever, condemning her to remain in hell. In Semper Dowland, sempter dolens, semper dolens: theatre of melancholy ('always Dowland, always doleful' was Dowland's own, punning description of himself), Birtwistle arranges Dowland's Seven Teares Figured in Seven Passionate Pavanes and intersperses them with new music, setting the Lachrimae poems of Geoffrey Hill.

Music	Harrison Birtwistle
Lyrics	David Harsent (The Corridor)
Lyrics	Geoffrey Hill (Geoffrey Hill (Semper Dowland)
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