War is My Condition: Contemporary Dance, Monteverdi, and Stained Glass at Brunel Museum, London on Wednesday 28th August 2019

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War is My Condition

Contemporary Dance, Monteverdi, and Stained Glass

Part of the War is my condition - Ante Terminum Productions 2019 Cycle

Add to my Calendar 28-08-2019 20:00 28-08-2019 22:00 36 War is My Condition War is my ConditionThe Brunel Museum | 2 - 4 Sep 2019 | Press Night 28 Aug 2019 | 8 pm    Ante Terminum Productions is a recently-established cross-arts music and theatre company based in London. The company’s debut, last year, of Britten’s Curlew River at St Bartholomew the Great was praised by Rupert Christiansen of The Telegraph as “A beautiful, dedicated and moving production” and Richard Bratby of The Spectator as “a little pearl of a production… its emotional impact out of proportion to its scale”, and our production of Stockhausen’s Stimmung at the Pathology Museum was described by Radio 3’s Donald MacLeod as “without a doubt, one of the most powerful musical experiences I have had in the last decade”. Our recent St John Passion was described by Nicholas Riddle, CEO of Edition Peters, as an “excellent performance… spiritually moving and artistically very successful”. This is ATP's most ambitious cross-arts site-specific production to date. It tells Monteverdi’s tragic love story of Tancredi and Clorinda. Tancredi, a crusader, and Clorinda, a Saracen, become lovers, and are separated by their peoples’ conflict. They meet in battle, and, being armoured, do not recognise one another during their fight until it's too late, and Tancredi has struck Clorinda down. In this production, ATP has expanded Monteverdi’s original scene with other madrigals by the composer to make a longer narrative. The story is told through the music, through contemporary dance, with dancers playing the two protagonists, and through light. Brian Clarke has lent the company three of his stained glass screens to use in the production, which coupled with our designs will immerse the audience in the narrative, set in the incredible Grand Entrance Hall of the Brunel Museum.   DancersLois WongLuke WatsonSingersAnna CavalieroLaura HockingTom LilburnRichard RobbinsTom HerringProduction TeamProducer / Musical Director Frederick WaxmanArtistic Director Peter ThickettChoreographer Kat CollingsLighting Edward SaundersDesign Desiree LaidlerStained Glass Brian Clarke   Brunel Museum, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Brunel Museum
Railway Avenue
Rotherhithe
London
SE16 4LF
England

Wednesday 28th August 2019
8:00 PM

Programme

Claudio Monteverdi – Zefiro torna e'l bel tempo rimena
Claudio Monteverdi – Si Dolce e'l Tormento, SV 332
Claudio Monteverdi – Hor Che'l ciel e la terra
Claudio Monteverdi – Lamento d'Arianna, SV 22
Claudio Monteverdi – Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda

Performers

Frederick Waxman – Conductor / harpsichord
Anna Cavaliero – soprano
Laura Hocking – mezzo-soprano
Tom Lilburn – countertenor
Richard Robbins – Tenor
Tom Herring – Bass

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Programme Note

War is my Condition
The Brunel Museum | 2 - 4 Sep 2019 | Press Night 28 Aug 2019 | 8 pm

Ante Terminum Productions is a recently-established cross-arts music and theatre company based in London. The company’s debut, last year, of Britten’s Curlew River at St Bartholomew the Great was praised by Rupert Christiansen of The Telegraph as “A beautiful, dedicated and moving production” and Richard Bratby of The Spectator as “a little pearl of a production… its emotional impact out of proportion to its scale”, and our production of Stockhausen’s Stimmung at the Pathology Museum was described by Radio 3’s Donald MacLeod as “without a doubt, one of the most powerful musical experiences I have had in the last decade”. Our recent St John Passion was described by Nicholas Riddle, CEO of Edition Peters, as an “excellent performance… spiritually moving and artistically very successful”.

This is ATP's most ambitious cross-arts site-specific production to date. It tells Monteverdi’s tragic love story of Tancredi and Clorinda. Tancredi, a crusader, and Clorinda, a Saracen, become lovers, and are separated by their peoples’ conflict. They meet in battle, and, being armoured, do not recognise one another during their fight until it's too late, and Tancredi has struck Clorinda down. In this production, ATP has expanded Monteverdi’s original scene with other madrigals by the composer to make a longer narrative. The story is told through the music, through contemporary dance, with dancers playing the two protagonists, and through light. Brian Clarke has lent the company three of his stained glass screens to use in the production, which coupled with our designs will immerse the audience in the narrative, set in the incredible Grand Entrance Hall of the Brunel Museum.

Dancers
Lois Wong
Luke Watson

Singers
Anna Cavaliero
Laura Hocking
Tom Lilburn
Richard Robbins
Tom Herring

Production Team
Producer / Musical Director Frederick Waxman
Artistic Director Peter Thickett
Choreographer Kat Collings
Lighting Edward Saunders
Design Desiree Laidler
Stained Glass Brian Clarke

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