FULL STATE OF BEING (Warwick Blair) London 2013 Nia Coleman, Sara Louisa Parry, Edmund Caird, Nicholas Charles

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: State of Being  
• Composer: Blair Warwick   
• Libretto: Laurent Antonczak, Max Schleser  
• Venue & Opera Company: Warwick Blair Ensemble  
• Recorded: August 10 & 11, 2013
• Type: Concert Live
• Singers: Nia Coleman, Sara Louisa Parry, Edmund Caird, Nicholas Charles
• Conductor: Michael Smedley  
• Orchestra: Instrumental Ensemble  
• Stage Director:   
• Costume Designer:   

Information about the Recording

• Published by: tete a tete  
• Date Published: 2013  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 3 Audio:3
• Subtitles: nosubs  

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  Genesis

  STATE OF BEING started life as a heavily deconstructed interpretation of a novel – one that replaced the importance of narrative meaning with that of thematic meaning. After a period of time, it became clear to me that the original source material (the text that comprised the novel itself) was irrelevant; all I was left with was the importance of thematic meaning as a theme. I thus put out a crowdsourcing call for a brand new libretto. Crowdsourcing involves soliciting contributions from a vast number of people around the world – in STATE OF BEING’s case: Columbia, Indonesia, England, France and New Zealand. The idea behind implementing this particular practice was to develop a global interpretation of my original brief – collating interpretations that varied from one culture to another into a potent tapestry. Contributors submited, under strict guidelines, material that was further edited by myself. From this I created eight scenes.These scenes deal with subjects such as love, sex and death.

  About

  STATE OF BEING presents a powerful series of emotional states of being that depict an individual’s struggle for survival and redemption. Just as Native American Indians used to ingest peyote to communicate with God and discover the truth behind their existence, we too can converse with God in a variety of ways… Think of the initial feeling of falling in love, whirling dervishes in dance, the clarity gained from finding that perfect mathematical theorem, being carried away whilst listening to jazz, the burning, primitive desire to have sex, the abrupt finality of death, and the escapism achieved through taking drugs.

  This is an opera about how we, in our modern world, can achieve certain forms of transcendence.

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