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FULL The Weather Man (Paul Clark) London 2009 Robert Poulton, Sarah Belcher
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: The Weather Man
- Composer: Clark Paul
- Libretto: John Binias Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Riverside Studios, London, UK, Opera North
- Recorded: 2010
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Robert Poulton, Sarah Belcher
- Conductor: Dominic Wheeler
- Orchestra:
- Stage Director:
- Stage Designer: Richard Aylwin Conductor: FitzRoy:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Tête à Tête
- Date Published: 2010
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Originally a work-in–progress developed as part of Opera North Projects’ Resonance strand of new music-theatre, The Weather Man has been brought to fruition in a co-commission by Opera North and Shrewsbury’s Shift Time Festival. Much of the libretto was constructed out of historical materials, and by setting a prose narration to music alongside and overlapping with a traditional sung operatic text, Paul Clark and John Binias have rediscovered the musical qualities of the spoken voice.
The friendship between Captain Robert FitzRoy and Charles Darwin blossomed during five years together on the Beagle. But as Darwin developed his theory of natural selection, FitzRoy became a creationist and the two were forever divided. This production of Paul Clark and John Binias’s fascinating chamber work for string quartet, baritone and spoken voice explores
what happened when the two friends found themselves on opposite sides of the 19th-century’s greatest intellectual fault line.