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Performance

VenueSnape Maltings Concert Hall
Also: The Red House, Britten Pears Arts
TownAldeburgh
CountySuffolk
From24th October 2020
To24th October 2020
When15:00
Snape Maltings Concert Hall (V75)
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  • Date of change: 19 Oct 20 - T01437240541

English Touring Opera - Lyric Solitude 3. Tippett's Boyhood's End and The Heart's Assurance/Britten's The Holy Sonnets of John Donne

Work:: English Touring Opera (S6598)


Company English Touring Opera

Production:: Lyric Solitude 3. Tippett's Boyhood's End and The Heart's Assurance/Britten's The Holy Sonnets of John Donne (T01437240541)

The drama of living in a state of war runs through this programme, featuring responses in movement made to the music and poetry. Thomas Elwin (tenor) is the soloist in the ecstatic Boyhood's End (1943), to which Paul Chantry and Rae Piper make response in dance. Elwin is also the soloist in The Heart's Assurance – the most remarkable and fearless setting of poetry by young men who fought and died in WW2. These poems, thrusting sensual desire into a landscape of death, finds response in movement by Bernadette Iglich. Iglich also sets Britten's eloquent, searing response to what he saw at the concentration camp at Belsen at the end of the war in The Holy Sonnets of John Donne. Donne's sonnets ravish and twist, and call out for love and understanding. They are sung by tenor Richard Dowling.
Music Tippett (Boyhood's End)
Music Birtten (Holy Sonnets of John Donne)
Music Tippett (The Heart's Assurance)
Performer Thomas Elwin (tenor)
Performer Richard Dowling (tenor)
Performer Ian Tindale (piano)
Performer Paul Chantry (dancer)
Choreographer Rae Piper
Director Bernadette Iglich (movement director)

Listing:: L450234090




Current production:Work

Lyric Solitude 3. Tippett's Boyhood's End and The Heart's Assurance/Britten's The Holy Sonnets of John Donne

The drama of living in a state of war runs through this programme, featuring responses in movement made to the music and poetry. Thomas Elwin (tenor) is the soloist in the ecstatic Boyhood's End (1943), to which Paul Chantry and Rae Piper make response in dance. Elwin is also the soloist in The Heart's Assurance – the most remarkable and fearless setting of poetry by young men who fought and died in WW2. These poems, thrusting sensual desire into a landscape of death, finds response in movement by Bernadette Iglich. Iglich also sets Britten's eloquent, searing response to what he saw at the concentration camp at Belsen at the end of the war in The Holy Sonnets of John Donne. Donne's sonnets ravish and twist, and call out for love and understanding. They are sung by tenor Richard Dowling.

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