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FULL TALES OF OUR FATHERS (Ben Park) London 2011 Sarah Dacey, Phil Brown
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Tales Of Our Fathers
- Composer: Park Ben
- Libretto: Ian McMillan Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: London, UK, Park Music Co
- Recorded: August 14, 2011
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Sarah Dacey, Phil Brown
- Conductor:
- Orchestra:
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: tete a tete
- Date Published: 2011
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- He sails across a pond in a boat he’s made himself and decides he wants to go to sea.
- He watches flying fish in the South China sea.
- Home from sea for the last time in 1958, carries me into the garden. I say gogn gogn gogn.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Genesis
Tales of our fathers has come about as a reaction to, the previous Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2009 premiere Law Of Motion; in that research/performance work Ian and Ben established a clear mode of process, a means by which they can effectively collaborate and generate ideas, whilst producing work that is both thought provoking and exciting to them and their audience. By involving Steven Tiplady in this production, they are bringing this process, to connect with a ‘teller of tales’ (Dust, Pinocchio, The Chalk Giants), one who tells a tale in a unique and beautifully visual way. This will be done via the use of a white backlit 5mx3m screen, simple images, repeating and evolving upon the screen, fading and cross-fading.
Synopsis
Operatic shadow theatre tells the Tales of our Fathers that represent a life, told by a son and the magical imagery of Steve Tiplady. Using Ian’s poetry which is to centre on ‘shards’ of tales; tales that describe the moments of a fathers’ life, as seen by the son, that shaped the man, that became the father, such as:
These words will be entwined within the music and vocals, and the tale that they tell shall be described visually through the use of shadow-play, conveying the sense of narrative.