Performance

Venue	Barbican Centre
	Also: Barbican Theatre,Barbican Hall. Guildhall School of Music and Drama Theatre, Cinema1,Cinema2,Gallery, Silk Street Theatre
Town	West End
County	Greater London
From	29th January 2012
To	29th January 2012
When	19:30
Prices	From £10.00. To £25.00.
Barbican Centre (V371)
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Date of change: 21 Dec 11 - T01301587221

Wagner Dream

Work:: Wagner Dream (S184087250)

Wagner Dream is described by Jonathan Harvey as "a fantasy, based on fact but following it way beyond what is known." Set on the morning of Wagner's death (in Venice), he continues work on an essay but, just at the point at which he begins to consider the implications of his 28-year-old project to write an opera on a Buddhist subject, he suffers a heart attack. Starting from the sketches Wagner left behind, Harvey and librettist Jean-Claude Carriere have built a rich operatic fantasy mingling scenes from Wagner's domestic life with the myth of Prakriti, whose love for the Buddhist monk Ananda is at first thwarted, but finally reaches a chaste fulfillment. At the heart of Wagner Dream is the clash of two cultures, expressed by a speaking level for Wagner in Venice and a singing level for Wagner's unrealised opera ?Die Sieger' in Buddha's India.

Music	Jonathan Harvey
Lyrics	Jean-Claude Carriere

Production:: (T01301587221)

Semi staged production

Producer	Barbican
Producer	BBC Symphony Orchestra
Company	BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor	Martyn Brabbins
Director	Orpha Phelan
Design	Charlie Cridlan
Design	Gilbert Nouno (IRCAM computer music designer)
Performer	Claire Booth (Prakiti)
Performer	Richard Angas (Old Brahmin)
Performer	Roderick Williams (Buddha)
Performer	Nicholas Le Provost (Richard Wagner)
Performer	Ruth Lass (Cosima Wagner)
Performer	Julia Innocenti (Carrie Pringle)
Performer	Richard Jackson (Dr Keppler)
Performer	Sally Brooks (Betty Vajrayogni)

Listing:: L0625137227

Barbican Hall

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Semi staged production Barbican Hall

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