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FULL PENELOPE: SEVEN WAYS TO WAIT (Arakelyan) London 2022 Anna Starushkevych
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Penelope: Seven Ways to Wait
- Composer: Arakelyan Kristina
- Libretto: Helen Eastman Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Arcola Theatre, London, UK, Grimeborn Opera Festival
- Recorded: September 2, 2022
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Anna Starushkevych, Alice Usher, Alice Martin, Sarah Carroll, Marienella Clarita Phillips, Ellie Stamp, Aino Konkka
- Conductor:
- Orchestra: Kristina Arakelyan, PIANO
- Stage Director: Lucy Bradley
- Stage Designer: Mayou Trikerioti
- Costume Designer:
- Lighting Designer: Edmund Sutton
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Kristina Arakelyan
- Date Published: 2022
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
In Homer’s Odyssey, Penelope was left behind as her husband disappeared for war and adventure. As she waited, she weaved – creating by day, and frantically unpicking by night.
In this new opera we meet seven women who are waiting, in different times and places and for very different things.
In a fast-paced world, can waiting be a heroic act? A creative act?
This collaboration between composer Kristina Arakelyan and librettist Helen Eastman, with Ukrainian mezzo-soprano Anna Starushkevych, weaves its way from Greece to Ukraine, 5BC to a 1913 suffrage meeting, and work-out videos to 16th century witchcraft.
Join us as we explore seven ways to wait.