Organization

Stage director

Oliver Mears

Conductor

Corinna Niemeyer

Set designer

Anna Marie Wood

Costume designer

Lighting designer

D.M. Wood

Choreographer

Sarita Piotrowski

Stage combat master

Bret Yount

Intimacy Coordinator

Lili Cooper

Singer

Tenor

Michael Gibson

Male chorus

Soprano

Sydney Baedke

Female chorus

Bass

Anthony Reed

Collatinus

Baritone

Kieran Rayner

Junius

Jolyon Loy

Tarquinius

Contralto

Anne Marie Stanley

Lucretia

Mezzo-soprano

Carolyn Holt

Bianca

Sarah Dufresne

Lucia

Royal Opera House

Orchestra

Aurora Orchestra

Others

Britten Pears Chamber Choir

Britten Pears Arts

English

The Rape of Lucretia

Snape

United Kingdom

Snape Maltings Concert Hall

The Rape of Lucretia Britten

Public

Private

Approved

Britten's earth shattering chamber opera, already sold out at the Royal Opera House, premieres at Snape Maltings Concert Hall in a production directed by Oliver Mears.

Oliver Mears, Director of the Royal Opera House, makes his directorial debut outside his home venue with this contemporary new staging of Benjamin Britten's work.

In a world brutalised by conflict, one woman’s experience of horrific violence becomes the defining moment of an era. Benjamin Britten explores some of the darkest drives in the human psyche – and what happens when power and war give them free rein. Lucretia’s final aria is one of the most passionate Britten ever composed.

Corinna Niemeyer conducts a cast drawn from the Britten Pears Young Artist Programme and the Jette Parker Artists Programme.

Sung in English with surtitles. A co-production by Britten Pears Arts and The Royal Opera House.

"The Rape of Lucretia is a tense, troubled and dangerous opera – one of Britten’s finest. The responsibility towards the piece and its traumatic subject matter makes it a daunting opera for any creative team. But by finding its deepest, most innermost resonances (with Britten’s own life as well as with the apocalyptic circumstances of his time – and ours) we will, we hope, allow it to speak with unbearable power for audiences for now."
    Oliver Mears, director of the production and Director of The Royal Opera

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Ensemble

Co-Producer