Interactive Broadcast
19:45-20:45, Saturday 7th August 2021
Catch-up for £1 until 4th September
The Cockpit
Music: Sarah Sarhandi
Words: Vincent Katz
‘While There’s Light’ is a work-in-progress selection from composer Sarah Sarhandi and Vincent Katz’s opera based on Katz’s award-winning translations of the love poems of 1st century BCE Roman poet Sextus Propertius. Katz and Sarhandi are crafting an evening’s performance that tells a story of love, lust, obsession, mistrust, hatred, death, and immortality, set against the context, relevant today as then, of a relentlessly militaristic society. Sarhandi is composing a score with classical structures that also draws on dance music. Voices, instruments and Sarah’s distinctive viola combine with and are contrasted against electronica in intimate interludes and large layered soundscapes.
You can find a programme for While There’s Light here.
The interactive broadcast will include a Q&A with prizes for audience members who can identify arcane mythological references!
Age range: 13+ (Sexual content, graphic violence referred to)
Content advisories: Sexual content, and violence referred to
Produced by Cynthia Opera
Venue: Online
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Music: Sarah Sarhandi
Libretto: Vincent Katz
Performers: Loré Lixenberg, mezzo-soprano; Rosie Middleton, mezzo-soprano; Ebe Oke, tenor
Percussion: Mark Sanders
Viola: Sarah Sarhandi
Suit: John Pearse
Sound Technician: Nir Perlman
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Music: Sarah Sarhandi
Libretto: Vincent Katz
Performers: Loré Lixenberg, mezzo-soprano; Rosie Middleton, mezzo-soprano; Ebe Oke, tenor
Percussion: Mark Sanders
Viola: Sarah Sarhandi
Suit: John Pearse
Sound Technician: Nir Perlman