Organization

Singer

Tenor

Nicholas Sharratt

Prince Dominic

Soprano

Sarah Tynan

Monique

Baritone

George von Bergen

Edward

Mezzo-soprano

Josephine Thorpe

The Grandmother

Alinka Kozári

Lucille

Anna Leese

Laura

Patricia Orr

Yolande

Conductor

Dominic Wheeler

Stage director

Alessandro Talevi

Set designer

Madeleine Boyd

Costume designer

Richard Andrzejewski

Lighting designer

Matt Haskins

Louise Poole

Julia

Håkan Vramsmo

Mark

Independent Opera at Sadler's Wells

Independent Opera

The Sofa

London

United Kingdom

Sadler's Wells

The Sofa Maconchy (+1 More)

Public

The Departure

Approved

The Sofa and The Departure. These wonderfully surreal and yet contrasting works were composed between 1956 and 1961 and premiered at Sadler’s Wells. Elizabeth Maconchy was born in Hertfordshire in 1907 but grew up in rural Ireland. She studied under Ralph Vaughn Williams at the Royal College of Music in London, but eschewed English pastoralism for the sophisticated modernism of Central Europe embodied by Bartók and Janáček. After completing her studies in Prague she returned to England, and in the post-war era was much in demand with the leading orchestras, ensembles and soloists of the day. In 1987 she was appointed Dame of the British Empire in recognition of her services to music. She died in 1994.

English

The Sofa by Maconchy, The Departure by Maconchy, From (2007/2007), Directed by Alessandro Talevi,, Conductor Dominic Wheeler, Sadler's Wells, London, United Kingdom

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