Organization

Singer

Contralto

Anna Dowsley

Lucretia

Nathan Lay

No role specified

Celeste Lazarenko

Andrew Goodwin

Jeremy Kleeman

Simon Lobelson

Jane Sheldon

Conductor

Jack Symonds

Stage director

Kip Williams

Set designer

David Fleischer

Lighting designer

Damien Cooper

Associate Director

Elizabeth Gadsby

Costume designer

Victorian Opera

Sydney Chamber Opera

The Rape of Lucretia

Sydney City

Australia

Carriageworks

Bay 20

The Rape of Lucretia Britten

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This is where chamber opera begins: with an unforgivable crime and a hollow prayer.

For composer Benjamin Britten, the Roman tale of Lucretia’s tragic violation at the hands of the tyrant Tarquinius became the vessel for an operatic revolution. In place of grandeur and bombast, his work was taut and intimate, with only eight singers and a chamber ensemble to score their every thought and action.

Britten’s Lucretia seethes with psychological insight and desperate yearning for divinity. It is a ritual circle carved out for the noblest acts of humanity. And the most depraved.

SCO brings this pioneering work to a Sydney stage for the first time this century. Helpmann Award-winning Artistic Director of Sydney Theatre Company Kip Williams returns to SCO after his ravishing production of An Index of Metals to direct rising star Anna Dowsley (Le Nozze di Figaro for Opera Australia; SCO’s Ich habe genug) in the career-defining title role.

English

The Rape of Lucretia by Britten, From (2017/2017), Directed by Kip Williams,, Conductor Jack Symonds, Carriageworks, Sydney City, Australia

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