Organization

Conductor

Michel-Alexandre Broekaert

Stage director

Michel-Maxime Legault

Lighting designer

Anne-Catherine Simard-Deraspe

Singer

Tenor

Karim Sulayman

Others

OCM String Quintet and Piano

Orchestre Classique de Montréal

English

Unruly sun

Quebec City

Canada

Public

Concert

French

Approved

World AIDS Day.

Presented as a world premiere, Unruly Sun is a cycle of songs, sung in English, and accompanied by six musicians, inspired by the life of director and queer activist Derek Jarman as well as his popular memoir, Modern Nature .

In 18 songs, the work pays homage to Jarman as an artist and a person living with AIDS, and chronicles the work that went into creating his garden at Prospect Cottage, a fisherman's cottage on the arid South West Coast. from England.

This project was born out of a joint commission from Brott Opera (Hamilton) and the 21C Festival (Toronto). Unruly Sun  is a creation of Canadian composer  Matthew Ricketts and renowned American librettist  Mark Campbell  , whose operas have won both a Pulitzer Prize for Music and a GRAMMY Prize.

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Ensemble