Performance

Venue	London Coliseum
Town	West End
County	Greater London
From	24th April 2010
To	8th May 2010
When	Apr 26, 28, May 1, 4, 6, 8 at 19:00
What is currently on at London Coliseum (V376)

Elegy for Young Lovers

T0545386504
The opera, premiered in 1961. The libretto is written by W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman and centres on poet Gregor Mittenhofer who travels to an inn in the Austrian Alps in the hope of gaining artistic inspiration from an old widow tormented by visions. Consumed by his insatiable greed and desire for recognition he begins to exploit and destroy the lives of those around him to satisfy his creativity and ego.

Author	WH Auden
Author	Chester Kallman
Music	Hans Werner Henze

Archive :: production:T0545386504, opera or operetta:S174008627, venue:V376

Production details

Following Fiona Shaw's acclaimed 2008 ENO debut, she now directs another 20th Century masterpiece. Co-written by WH Auden and Chester Kallman, and set by composer Hans Werner Henze, Elegy for Young Lovers offers a savagely witty expose of the creative ego and its insatiable need to feed off all around it.

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Company

Producer	English National Opera
Producer	Young Vic
Conductor	Stefan Blunier
Director	Fiona Shaw
Design	Tom Pye
Lighting	Peter Mumford
Performer	William Robert Allenby
Performer	Rob Murray
Performer	Steven Page (Gregor Mittenhofer)
Performer	Jennifer Rhys-Davies (Hildemack)
Performer	Lucy Schaufe (Carolina von Kirchstatten)
Performer	Kate Valentine (Elizabeth Zimmer)
Performer	Robert Murray (Toni Reischmann)
Performer	William Robert Allenby (Wilhelm Reischmann)

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