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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.

Creatives/Company

Music: Michel van der Aa
Lyrics: David Mitchell

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Archive listings for Sunken Garden (2013)

Work type: Opera or Operetta.

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English National Opera comes to the Barbican for this brand new collaboration, a world premiere with libretto by best-selling author David Mitchell (Cloud Atlas), and score by Dutch composer Michel van der Aa, whose prize-winning music theatre piece After Life premiered here in 2010. Running time: 110mins with no interval. Performed in EnglishProducer English National Opera. Director Michel van der Aa. Design Theun Mosk. Conductor Andre de Ridder. Performer Roderick Williams. Performer Katherine Manley. Performer Claron McFadden. Performer Jonathan McGovern. Performer Kate Miller-Heidke.

12 Apr 13 to 20 Apr 13

Barbican Centre, West End :: V371
listing details L512354157

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