FULL RUNE A Fashion-Opera (Alastair White) London 2021 Patricia Auchterlonie, Simone Ibbett-Brown, Ben Smith

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: Rune  
• Composer: White Alastair   
• Libretto: Alastair White  
• Venue & Opera Company: Round Chapel, Hackney, London, UK, Tete-a-Tete Opera Festival  
• Recorded: August 17, 2021
• Type: Concert Semi-staged
• Singers: Patricia Auchterlonie, Simone Ibbett-Brown, Ben Smith, Siwan Rhys, Joseph Havlat
• Conductor: Ben Smith  
• Orchestra:
• Stage Director: Gemma A. Williams, Jarno Leppanen  
• Costume Designer: Ka Wa Key  

Information about the Recording

• Published by: Alastair White  
• Date Published: 2025  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs, gensubs  
• Video Recording from: YouTube     FULL VIDEO
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

PROGRAM LEAFLET

Re-opening theatre doors with a grand fashion-opera spectacle, RUNE is a vast cosmological fantasy from the team behind the award-nominated ROBE (“excellent” – BBC Music) and WEAR (“spellbinding” – Boulezian) — featuring an ensemble of three grand pianos, contemporary dance with interactive sculpture, and high fashion by Ka Wa Key. On a planet where history is forbidden, a young girl dares to tell her story. A voyage across galaxies and millennia, hers is a tale of the archipelagos of Khye-rell and their matterwork, through transdimensional canals and sealanes to the RUNE of the universe’s origin. This song, her story — through the very act of being told — will have consequences beyond imagining…