British composer Thomas Adès conducts the Met premiere of his contemporary masterpiece "The Tempest," an English-language opera based on Shakespeare.s final play. The Met.s fantastical new production by Robert Lepage airs on Great Performances at the Met Sunday, March 17 at 12 noon on PBS (check local listings). In New York, Thirteen will premiere the opera on Thursday, March 21 at 9 p.m., with an encore showing Sunday, March 24 at 12:30 p.m. From PBS Simon Keenlyside leads the cast as the exiled magician Prospero, a role he created at the opera.s 2004 world premiere. The opera also stars Isabel Leonard as Prospero.s daughter, Miranda; Alek Shrader as the shipwrecked prince, Ferdinand; Alan Oke as the monstrous island...
- 3/13/2013
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness has been reimagined as an opera for the first time. Tom Service meets its composer Tarik O'Regan
An opera adaptation of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness? Amazingly, it's never been done before. But 33-year-old composer Tarik O'Regan's new chamber opera, the first stage work from this brilliant British composer, was inspired by the most famous adaptation of Conrad's remarkable novella. "I had always loved Coppola's film Apocalypse Now, and in 2001 realised the movie's relationship with the book," he says in a pub over the road from the Royal Opera House, where the work will be staged. A year later, in conversation with his friend and librettist, the artist, composer, and writer Tom Phillips, O'Regan's opera was born.
It's been a nearly decade-long journey from that initial spark of inspiration to the staging of Heart of Darkness at the Linbury Studio theatre at Covent Garden this week.
An opera adaptation of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness? Amazingly, it's never been done before. But 33-year-old composer Tarik O'Regan's new chamber opera, the first stage work from this brilliant British composer, was inspired by the most famous adaptation of Conrad's remarkable novella. "I had always loved Coppola's film Apocalypse Now, and in 2001 realised the movie's relationship with the book," he says in a pub over the road from the Royal Opera House, where the work will be staged. A year later, in conversation with his friend and librettist, the artist, composer, and writer Tom Phillips, O'Regan's opera was born.
It's been a nearly decade-long journey from that initial spark of inspiration to the staging of Heart of Darkness at the Linbury Studio theatre at Covent Garden this week.
- 11/1/2011
- by Tom Service
- The Guardian - Film News
Our critics pick the season's highlights: From Lady Gaga to Harry Potter, Coppélia to Tony Cragg, this summer has something for all
May
4 Film The Tree of Life
The much-delayed fifth feature from director Terrence Malick, snapped up by Icon for UK release ahead of its Cannes showing, is a multi-generational drama featuring Brad Pitt, Sean Penn – and, reportedly, dinosaurs.
5 Classical From the House of the Dead
Opera North's production of Janáek's final work, directed by John Fulljames and conducted by Richard Farnes. Stars Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts, Alan Oke and Roderick Williams. Leeds and touring
Dance By Singing Light/Romance Inverse
National Dance Company of Wales bring Stephen Petronio and Itzik Galili's arresting double bill to Dance City in Newcastle, with the former set to the poetry of Dylan Thomas.
6 Theatre Shrek
Nigel Lindsay plays the lime-coloured, lovelorn ogre, with Amanda Holden as Princess Fiona and Nigel Harman as Lord Farquaad,...
May
4 Film The Tree of Life
The much-delayed fifth feature from director Terrence Malick, snapped up by Icon for UK release ahead of its Cannes showing, is a multi-generational drama featuring Brad Pitt, Sean Penn – and, reportedly, dinosaurs.
5 Classical From the House of the Dead
Opera North's production of Janáek's final work, directed by John Fulljames and conducted by Richard Farnes. Stars Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts, Alan Oke and Roderick Williams. Leeds and touring
Dance By Singing Light/Romance Inverse
National Dance Company of Wales bring Stephen Petronio and Itzik Galili's arresting double bill to Dance City in Newcastle, with the former set to the poetry of Dylan Thomas.
6 Theatre Shrek
Nigel Lindsay plays the lime-coloured, lovelorn ogre, with Amanda Holden as Princess Fiona and Nigel Harman as Lord Farquaad,...
- 4/30/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
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