FULL LAMENT (Gregory, Fletcher, Monteverdi) London 2013 Katie Slater

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: LAMENT   
• Composer: David Gregory, Nicholas Fletcher, Claudio Monteverdi  
• Libretto: Ottavio Rinuccini    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: London, UK  
• Recorded: August 15, 2013
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: Katie Slater
• Conductor:   
• Orchestra:
• Stage Director: Daisy Evans   
• Costume Designer:   
• Lighting Designer: Ziggy Jacobs   

Information about the Recording

• Published by: tete a tete  
• Date Published: 2013  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: nosubs  

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  Trapped, abandoned and completely helpless. How often have we felt the light of hope fade into darkness and how frequently have we surrendered to melancholy and sadness? Lament opens a window into the mind of Ariadne, presenting a unique and brand new operatic sound world to express her feelings and action. Abandoned by her love, she longs for death and thinks her world will cease. But the sun always rises, and her lament becomes a path to new hope and rejuvenation.

  Silent Opera present a newly devised opera based around the famous story of Ariadne. Using entirely synthesised sounds and technologies, this is the sound of a new method of presenting opera. This is the Theatre of Sound.

  Genesis

  LAMENT is an entirely devised opera based on Monteverdi’s dramatic aria, ‘l’Arianna’. We took the character’s story and brought it into the contemporary world, creating a new version that sees her rejected by her lover and struggling with her enforced loneliness. We found synthesised and recorded sounds and moods that best reflected her dramatic state, re-­‐applying the operatic line to create what we call the ‘Theatre of Sound’.

  About

  Silent Opera present a newly devised opera based around the famous story of Ariadne. Using entirely synthesised sounds and technologies, we have created a new way of presenting opera. This is the ‘Theatre of Sound’. Using live performance with pre-­‐recorded effects, synthesisers and spoken word, LAMENT comprises a sound gallery of memories used to simulate the tortured world of Ariadne’s tormented soul – trapped, abandoned and completely helpless. LAMENT opens a window into the contemporary mind, presenting a unique and brand new operatic sound world to express feeling and action. Abandoned by her love, Ariadne longs for death and hopes

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