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FULL VOICING (Heslop) London 2011 Alistair Sutherland, Merryn Gamba
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Voicing - Operatic Shorts and Freathy Tippett
- Composer: Heslop Caroline
- Libretto: Daniel, Laura & Zara (21stC) and 4 anonymous interviewees (19thC) Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: London, UK, Tête à Tête
- Recorded: August 20, 2011
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Alistair Sutherland, Merryn Gamba
- Conductor:
- Orchestra: Instrumental Ensemble
- Stage Director: Julie Osman
- Stage Designer: Martin Thomas
- Costume Designer: Martin Thomas
- Lighting Designer: Steve Lowe
Information about the Recording
- Published by: MyNewOpera
- Date Published: 2022
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 3 Audio:3
- Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
The text is taken from London Labour and the London Poor by Henry Mayhew, and from interviews conducted by Christine Bacon of the human rights theatre company iceandfire; Mayhew‟s interviews are with working people in the 1840s, Bacon‟s with contemporary Londoners who are living in poverty.
In the 1840s, Henry Mayhew wanted his book to “cause those who are in „high places‟ … to bestir themselves to improve the condition of a class of people whose misery, ignorance, and vice, amidst all the immense wealth and great knowledge of „the first city in the world‟, is a national disgrace to us.” In 2008/09, 13½ million people in the UK were living below the poverty line: one in five of the population [poverty.org.uk].
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