Name: Kommilitonen!
Start: 2016-07-27T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2016-07-30T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Memorial Hall

Organization

Conductor

Alice Farnham

Stage director

Polly Graham

Singer

Baritone

Oscar Castellino

James Meredith

Soprano

Chiara Vinci

Sophie Scholl

Set designer

Gabriella Slade

Costume designer

Video designer

Will Duke

Choreographer

Jo Fong

Dragoș Ionel

Hans Scholl

Andrew McGowan

Stimme des Pokayne

Bass-baritone

Jack Bowtell

Willi Graf

Tenor

Andrew Henley

Christoph Probst

The Evangelist

Bass

Dafydd Gape

Alexander Schmorell

Großinquisitor

Catherine Schofield

Prison Guard

Edmund Caird

Janitor

Mezzo-soprano

Aimée Daniel

Li Jingji

Pablo González

Wu Tianshi

Flora Macdonald

Jacquelyne Hill

Suzi Saperia

Zhou

Enna Hansen

Doktor

Joanna Brabbs

1. Red Army Officer

Amy Kearsley

2. Red Army Officer

Christina Negoescu

3. Red Army Officer

Lighting designer

Katy Morison

Chorus master

Nicola Rose

Welsh National Opera

Orchestra

Welsh National Opera Orchestra

Others

WNO Children's Chorus

Kommilitonen!

Barry

United Kingdom

Memorial Hall

Kommilitonen! Davies,PM

Public

Approved

Step into the rehearsal room with some of opera’s most promising young singers as we get ready to stage our latest production – Kommilitonen!The latest show ...

Music by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies Libretto by David Pountney Performed by WNO Youth Opera

Kommilitonen!, an opera for young people about young people, is the latest production by the acclaimed WNO Youth Opera following the RPS award winning Paul Bunyan in 2013. Each WNO Youth Opera production gives the brightest emerging performers, musicians and technicians an opportunity to take centre stage benefitting from the support and expertise of this world-class opera company.

Kommilitonen! intertwines three stories of student revolution in the 20th century - the Chinese Cultural Revolution; the Civil Rights Movement in the USA; and the White Rose movement in Nazi Germany. The three stories come together at the end of the opera, locating the action between the present and the past, and evoking the tyranny of the three political systems that the opera explores. 

For an opera about revolution, it’s important that we don’t just sit passively in our seats but feel part of the action. Polly Graham’s promenade production seizes on this idea by putting the audience in the heart of these stories and combines innovative visual projections with a spectacular set transforming Barry Memo into the frontline of 20th century turmoil.

English

Kommilitonen!, opera i bobl ifainc am bobl ifainc, yw’r cynhyrchiad diweddaraf gan Opera Ieuenctid WNO yn dilyn Paul Bunyan a enillodd wobr RPS yn 2013. Mae pob cynhyrchiad gan Opera Ieuenctid WNO yn rhoi cyfle i’r perfformwyr, cerddorion a thechnegwyr mwyaf sy’n dod i’r amlwg fod yn ganolbwynt. Byddant yn elwa o gymorth ac arbenigedd y cwmni opera safonol hwn. 

Mae Kommilitonen! yn cydblethu tair stori am chwyldro myfyrwyr yn yr 20fed ganrif – Chwyldro Diwylliannol Tsieina; y Mudiad Hawliau Sifil yn yr UDA; a symudiad y Rhosyn Gwyn yn yr Almaen Natsiaidd. Daw’r tair stori at ei gilydd ar ddiwedd yr opera, gan leoli’r weithred rhwng y presennol a’r gorffennol, ac ennyn gormes tair system wleidyddol y mae’r opera yn edrych arnynt. 

Gydag opera am chwyldro, mae’n bwysig nad ydym ond yn eistedd yn oddefol yn ein seddi, ond teimlo’n rhan o’r weithred. Mae cynhyrchiad promenâd Polly Graham yn ymaflyd ar y syniad hwn trwy roi’r gynulleidfa wrth galon y storïau hyn. Mae’n cyfuno tafluniadau gweledol arloesol gyda set ysblennydd gan drawsnewid Barry Memo i reng flaen cythrwfl yr 20fed ganrif.

Cymraeg

Kommilitonen! by Davies, From (2016/2016), Directed by Polly Graham,, Conductor Alice Farnham, Memorial Hall, Barry, United Kingdom

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