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FULL THE PLAGUE AND THE MOONFLOWER (Richard Harvey) Movie UK 1999 Ben Kingsley, Ian Holm
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: The Plague and the Moonflower Composer: Libretto:
- Composer: Harvey Richard
- Libretto: Ralph Steadman
- Venue & Opera Company: Studio and on location, England, Salisbury Cathedral
- Recorded: 1999
- Type: Movie
- Singers: Ben Kingsley, Ian Holm, John Williams, Kym Amps, Richard Studt
- Conductor:
- Orchestra:
- Chorus: Choir of New College Oxford, New London's Children Choir
- Chorus Master: Edward Higginbottom, Ronald Corp
- Choreographer: Laurie Booth
- Stage Director: Robin Lough
- Stage Designer: Jennifer Kernke
- Costume Designer: Emma Lock
- Lighting Designer: Adam Grater
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Altus Records, BBC
- Date Published: 1999
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 3 Audio:3
- Subtitles: nosubs
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
“Plague and the Moonflower” is a unique and apocalyptic musical spectacle and ecological love story for the millennium. Richard Harvey audaciously interweaves narration, electronic keyboards, Andean folk instruments, virtuoso solos, choruses of children and adults, and full orchestra, in an extraordinary and richly textured collage, while Ralph Steadman’s powerful libretto addresses themes of struggle, of despair, and of hope. As man’s red-eyed demon poisons earth, sea and sky, an ethereal beauty unfolds its delicate petals…
This release (1999) is available on Altus Records.¶