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Grimeborn Opera Festival

Singer

Anna Starushkevych

Mezzo-Soprano

Lighting designer

Edmund Sutton

Penelope: Seven Ways to Wait

London

United Kingdom

Arcola Theatre

Penelope: Seven Ways to Wait: Penelope

Public

Penelope

Approved

'Window Smashing' tells the story of suffragettes who fought for women's rights, including the right to vote.

Music by Kristina Arakelyan
Libretto by Helen Eastman

CAST:

Penelope: Anna Starushkevych
Chorus Soprano 1: Alice Usher
Chorus Soprano 2: Alice Martin
Chorus Soprano 3: Sarah Carroll
Chorus Alto 1: Marienella Clarita Phillips
Chorus Alto 2: Ellie Stamp
Chorus Alto 3: Aino Konkka

Pianist: Kristina Arakelyan 

CREATIVES AND SUPPORT:

Composer: Kristina Arakelyan Composer
Librettist: Helen Eastman
Consultant Director: Lucy Bradley
Associate Director: Anna Starushkevych
Consultant Designer: Mayou Trikerioti
Lighting Designer: Edmund Sutton
Rehearsal Conductor and Surtitles: Elizabeth Leather
Videographer and photographer: Ben Tomlin
Art: Ellie Winter
Social Media Management: Ellie Winter and Alice Martin 
Project Management: Fly High Stories

Penelope: Seven Ways to Wait: Penelope: Seven Ways to Wait Kristina Arakelyan

In Homer’s Odyssey, Penelope was left behind as her husband disappeared for war and adventure. As she waited, she weaved – creating by day, and frantically unpicking by night.
In this new opera we meet seven women who are waiting, in different times and places and for very different things.
In a fast-paced world, can waiting be a heroic act? A creative act?
This collaboration between composer Kristina Arakelyan and librettist Helen Eastman, with Ukrainian mezzo-soprano Anna Starushkevych, weaves its way from Greece to Ukraine, 5BC to a 1913 suffrage meeting, and work-out videos to 16th century witchcraft.

English

Penelope: Seven Ways to Wait by Arakelyan, From (2022/2022), Arcola Theatre, London, United Kingdom

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