Performance

VenueBarbican Centre
Other spaces: Barbican Theatre,Barbican Hall. Guildhall School of Music and Drama Theatre, Cinema1,Cinema2,Gallery, Silk Street Theatre
TownWest End
CountyGreater London
From29th January 2012
To29th January 2012
When19:30
PricesFrom £10.00. To £25.00.
What is currently on at Barbican Centre (V371)

Wagner Dream

Wagner DreamT01301587221
Wagner Dream is described by Jonathan Harvey as "a fantasy, based on fact but following it way beyond what is known." Set on the morning of Wagner's death (in Venice), he continues work on an essay but, just at the point at which he begins to consider the implications of his 28-year-old project to write an opera on a Buddhist subject, he suffers a heart attack. Starting from the sketches Wagner left behind, Harvey and librettist Jean-Claude Carriere have built a rich operatic fantasy mingling scenes from Wagner's domestic life with the myth of Prakriti, whose love for the Buddhist monk Ananda is at first thwarted, but finally reaches a chaste fulfillment. At the heart of Wagner Dream is the clash of two cultures, expressed by a speaking level for Wagner in Venice and a singing level for Wagner's unrealised opera ?Die Sieger' in Buddha's India.
Music Jonathan Harvey
Lyrics Jean-Claude Carriere


Archive :: production:T01301587221, opera or operetta:S184087250, venue:V371

Production details

Semi staged production Barbican Hall

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Company

Producer Barbican
Producer BBC Symphony Orchestra
Company BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Martyn Brabbins
Director Orpha Phelan
Design Charlie Cridlan
Design Gilbert Nouno (IRCAM computer music designer)
Performer Claire Booth (Prakiti)
Performer Richard Angas (Old Brahmin)
Performer Roderick Williams (Buddha)
Performer Nicholas Le Provost (Richard Wagner)
Performer Ruth Lass (Cosima Wagner)
Performer Julia Innocenti (Carrie Pringle)
Performer Richard Jackson (Dr Keppler)
Performer Sally Brooks (Betty Vajrayogni)
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