FULL Garden of Vanished Pleasures (Livingston, McKevitt) Toronto 2021 Mireille Asselin, Lindsay McIntyre, Rebecca Cuddy, Daniel Cabena

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: Garden of Vanished Pleasures  
• Composer: Cecilia Livingston, Donna McKevitt  
• Libretto: Derek Jarman  
• Venue & Opera Company: Toronto, Canada  
• Recorded: 2021
• Type: Movie
• Singers: Mireille Asselin, Lindsay McIntyre, Rebecca Cuddy, Daniel Cabena
• Conductor: Rachael Kerr  
• Orchestra:
• Stage Director: Tim Albery  
• Stage Designer: Michelle Tracey  
• Costume Designer:   
• Lighting Designer: Wesley McKenzie  

Information about the Recording

• Published by: Sound Streams  
• Date Published: 2021  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: nosubs  
• Video Recording from: Vimeo     FULL VIDEO
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

If modern gardening has a patron saint, it must be English artist, filmmaker, and queer rights activist Derek Jarman. As the AIDS plague took his friends one by one and he himself faced an increasingly uncertain future, he discovered his own form of hope, resilience, and solace in his garden by the sea.

Cecilia Livingston writes deeply-felt songs of love and loss, and they chime perfectly with Donna McKevitt’s heart-aching songs that use beautiful texts drawn from Derek Jarman’s journals. Their works are intertwined in Garden of Vanished Pleasures, a fully-staged production for digital broadcast, devised and directed by Tim Albery, working with other members of the team who brought you Hell’s Fury, The Hollywood Songbook.