Passion, Poison and Petrification and The Prodigal Son

The first one-act production – The Prodigal Son (L’enfant prodigue) by Claude Debussy takes place at sunrise where a mother laments the absence of her prodigal son. He has left the family home to pursue pleasures in the world but soon realises there is no place like home. Composer Philip Hagemann has adapted the orchestration to chamber size and translated the French text into English. The second one-act opera is Passion, Poison and Petrifaction adapted from the play by G. Bernard Shaw. This is a comic melodrama with desire, murder and a twisted plot.

Royal Academy of Music, Marylebone Road, London NW1 5HT on Friday 10 September at 7:30pm, Saturday 11 September, 7:30pm & Sunday 12 September 2021, 2.30pm Tickets are £35, £25, Concessions £15