Sunken Garden
From: Friday, 12th April 2013
To: Saturday, 20 April 2013
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Synopsis
Experience an occult mystery opera, combining music, text and visual images including one of opera's first uses of 3D film. This film-opera follows a missing person and those who are searching for him... what connects the disappearance of a software engineer with a neurotic film-maker and a gullible patroness of the arts? Explore hoax and dark truth in this multi-layered production.
Our Review:
13 April 2013
English National Gizmo is back. The prevailing Coliseum precept that new commissions must include cutting-edge technology has taken ENO on a Barbican Theatre awayday for what they term “a film opera”.
With hindsight the company may regret giving Michel van der Aa a free creative hand on this project. The Dutch composer’s credits for Sunken Garden include ‘music and film’, ‘director’, ‘film script’ and ‘offline editing’, but none of it stacks up to much of an opera - even though his collaborator, the novelist David Mitchell, shares the writing credits and is responsible (I imagine) for the work’s creditable ambition to be a latter-day Tale of Hoffmann complete with an elusive character called Stella.
The story, which is flimsy yet convoluted, begins when video artist Toby Kramer receives a visit from Zenna Bri...
Creative
Michel van der Aa (Music)
David Mitchell (Lyrics)
English National Opera (Producer)
Michel van der Aa (Director)
Theun Mosk (Design)
Andre de Ridder (Conductor)
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