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FULL HERAKLES! (Neil Luck) London 2014
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Herakles!
- Composer: Luck Neil
- Libretto: reordered, reconstituted and regurgitated texts of Richard Foreman, Arnold Schwarzenegger and various British Mummers plays
- Venue & Opera Company: Kings Place Hall One, London, UK
- Recorded: August 9 & 10, 2014
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers: Adam de la Cour, Neil Luck
- Conductor:
- Orchestra: Ensemble: ARCO
- Stage Director: Neil Luck
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: tete a tete
- Date Published: 2014
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Genesis
HERAKLES! was first developed in 2013 for a one-‐off performance at The Actor’s Church (Covent Garden), with assistance from Help Musicians UK, PRSF and the Iris Theatre Company. Written specifically for the players of ARCO (those on stage tonight), the work has been reanimated, propped up and given a close shave for several performances in 2014 and 2015.
About
Offspring of an immortal father and a mortal mother, Hercules is an oddity– in possession of unnatural gifts, but bound by the same wheezing, aching, bleeding, flatulent body as the rest of us. This “divine fart” is the singularity of a musical black hole in HERAKLES! – drawing in, distending, and ultimately obliterating a freely syncretic car crash of references to classical and less classical demigods. Via various scraps of cultural flotsam and jetsam, the myth finds its ultimate allegory in the form of a traditional British Mummers play – a bawdy and incredulous tale of miraculous resurrection.
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