FULL EBB (Richard Knight) London 2015 Katie Slater, Julian Charles Debreuil, Mark Fleischmann

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: EBB  
• Composer: Knight Richard  
• Libretto: Norman Welch    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: New Diorama Theatre, Regent’s Place, London, UK  
• Recorded: July 25 & 26, 2015
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: Katie Slater, Julian Charles Debreuil, Mark Fleischmann
• Conductor: Elspeth Wilkes  
• Orchestra: Instrumental Ensemble  
• Stage Director: Neil Smith   
• Stage Designer: Rachel Carter  
• Costume Designer:   

Information about the Recording

• Published by: tete a tete  
• Date Published: 2016  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: nosubs  

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  Genesis

  Opera Room writes and produces new work forged from classic traditions for a modern audience. Richard Knight’s music is steeped in the classics but imbued with his own style and passions. Norman Welch writes dynamic stories and creates characters that straddle the line between archetype and day-­‐to-­‐day reality. The direction of Neil Smith comes from theatrical traditions that explore the aliveness of the event and the dynamic connection between performer and audience.

  Synopsis

  When a young woman is hit by a car, she is thrown into the air.EBB follows her experience during these final seconds, as shock and trauma release memories of a video message from her father – recorded when she was little – explaining his own upcoming death from cancer, and of her uncle singing a requiem mass at her father’s funeral. The piece is a final journey towards untimely death and a beatific realisation of the nature of existence, captured in but a few seconds, experienced in this one-­‐act operatic study.

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