The Lighthouse
From: Tuesday, 6th November 2012
To: Tuesday, 6 November 2012
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Synopsis
A chamber opera. A blend of music, drama and visual image based on Chekhov's Three Sisters. In December 1900 the lighthouse supply ship Hesperus, based in Stromness, Orkney, went on its routine tour of duty to the Flannan Isles lighthouse in the Outer Hebrides. The lighthouse was empty. All three beds and the table looked as if they had been left in a hurry and the lamp, through out was in perfect working order. The men had disappeared into thin air. The play explores what might have happened in the days and hours leading up to this mysterious discovery.
Our Review:
John Campbell - 6 November 2012
Peter Maxwell Davies’ opera, The Lighthouse, first performed in 1980, is based on a true story: in 1900 a supply ship arriving at the Flannan Isles in the Outer Hebrides found the lighthouse abandoned, the keepers missing and no clues as to what had happened to them. Maxwell Davies imagines what might have occurred. English Touring Opera’s production directed by Ted Huffman conveys every aspect of this ghostly mystery and its uncanny power.
The opera opens with three of the ship’s officers answering questions before a court of enquiry. Their testimonies contradict each other; details about the chair, the cup, the selkies do not tally. Clearly something is amiss. As they arrive on the island the sense of foreboding is palpable. A verdict of death by misadventure is reached. In the main act, entitled The Cry of the Beast, the uniformly excellent cast of three (Adam Tunnicliffe, tenor, Nicholas Merryweather, baritone, and Richard Mosley-Evans, bass)...
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