The Wooster Group's production of Francesco Cavalli's opera La Didone takes up a work from the days when opera was an emerging art form, and sets it down in a new world splintered by video imagery and made brazen by the electric guitar. Stirring another Italian cultural work of art into the mix, the Group brings into collision the ancient shipwreck tale of Aeneas and his Dido with the crashed spaceships of Mario Bava's 1965 Sci-fi B-movie horror film Planet of the Vampires. Identical leather spacesuits, forbidding planetary landscapes and battles with the walking dead meet with the baroque qualities of Cavalli's score.T01157695644UL Premiere. Performed in English and Italian. Running time 1 hour 30 minutes.Corporate Sponsor The List (Glasgow and Edinburgh Events Guide). Company The Wooster Group (KunstenFESTIVALdesArts). Director Elizabeth LeCompte. Musical Director Bruce Odland. Director Jennifer Griesback (assistant). Design Ruud van der Akker. Lighting Jennifer Tipton. Lighting Gabe Maxson. Sound Matt Schloss. Sound Joby Emmons. Design Zbigniew Bzymek (video). Design Anna Henckel-Donnersmarck (video). Design Reid Farrington (video). Performer Hai Ting Chinn. Performer Ari Fliakos. Performer Andrew Nolen. Performer Kamala Sankaram. Performer Scott Shepherd. Performer Harvey Valdes. Performer Kate Valk. Performer Charlie Weaver. Performer Judson Williiams. Performer John Young. | |
| 18 Aug 07 to 22 Aug 07 | Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh :: V604 listing details L962565062 |
