成人快手

成人快手 Symphony Orchestra
10 Nov 2018, Barbican, London
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成人快手 Symphony Orchestra & Chorus 2018-19 Season Ryan Wigglesworth conducts Mark-Anthony Turnage鈥檚 powerful opera The Silver Tassie

成人快手 Symphony Orchestra
Ryan Wigglesworth conducts Mark-Anthony Turnage鈥檚 powerful opera The Silver Tassie
19:00 Sat 10 Nov 2018 Barbican, London
A rare opportunity to see Mark-Anthony Turnage鈥檚 powerful, anti-war opera, performed here by an outstanding British cast.
A rare opportunity to see Mark-Anthony Turnage鈥檚 powerful, anti-war opera, performed here by an outstanding British cast.

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Sean O鈥機asey鈥檚 provocative 1928 play The Silver Tassie pries open the wound of the First World War and peers unblinkingly into its horrifying depths. The futility of war and its painful human cost is conveyed with even greater intensity in Mark-Anthony Turnage鈥檚 beautifully crafted operatic adaptation, which explores what happens when young, football-mad Irishman Harry comes back from the war in a wheelchair.

An all-star British cast has been assembled for this first UK revival of the opera since its 2000 premiere, including John Tomlinson, Susan Bickley, Sally Matthews and Louise Alder, with rising young baritone Ashley Riches as Harry. The performance will be conducted by Ryan Wigglesworth.

Sung in English, with surtitles.