Name: New Dark Age
Start: 2020-10-24T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2020-10-24T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Royal Opera House

Organization

Chanteur

Soprano

Nadine Benjamin

Soprano 1

Anna Dennis

Soprano 2

Mezzo-soprano

Susan Bickley

Video

Grant Gee

Simon Hendry

Mise en scène

Katie Mitchell

Direction d'orchestre

Natalie Murray Beale

Lumières

Adam Silverman

Décors

Vicki Mortimer

Royal Opera House

anglais

New Dark Age

Londres

Royaume-Uni

The cast and creative team behind The Royal Opera's The Knife of Dawn discuss the process of creating this new opera.

Hannah Kendall’s one-act chamber opera The Knife of Dawn tells the gripping story of Guyanese political activist and poet Martin Carter as he reaches the 28th – and most critical – day of his hunger strike in protest at British rule. Will poetry or death be the most effective way to serve his country?

A one-man monologue performed by Peter Brathwaite, The Knife of Dawn swings from despair to hope and everything in between in an exhilaratingly intense depiction of the personal struggles and hallucinations of a politically-engaged artist.

Kendall and librettist Tessa McWatt, who share their Guyanese heritage with Carter, have created a chamber opera of great beauty and intricacy for small Orchestra – while break-through director Ola Ince creates a visionary, total theatre production for the Royal Opera House stage.

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