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OVERVIEW
Role | Voice Type | Range ? | Character Description |
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Singer | high | Operatic Soprano | |
Singer | middle-low | Operatic Baritone | |
Singer | middle-high | Indigenous Singer | |
Singer | middle-high | Carnatic Singer | |
SATB Chorus 1 | high | ||
SATB Chorus 2 | high |
SYNOPSIS
"The jealous king Leontes’ wife, Hermione, is accused of committing adultery with his best friend, Polixenes, and Hermione is jailed. Soon after, Leontes and Hermione’s young son dies before she gives birth to a daughter Perdita who is smuggled out of the country after Hermione’s sudden death.
The play picks up sixteen years later, when the beautiful daughter, Perdita who was raised by shepherds, falls in love with Polixenes’ son and returns to her homeland where her mother, Hermione, comes back to life after her likeness was turned into a statue."
- Tasha DiLoreto, from Mooney on Theatre
PREMIERE PRODUCTION INFORMATION
Role | Name |
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Operatic Singer | Doug MacNaughton |
Operatic Singer | Neema Bickersteth |
Indigenous Singer | Rosary Spence |
Carnatic Singer | Sharada Eswar |
Role | Name |
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Director | Varrick Grimes |
Concept | Ruth Howard |
CREATION
QUOTATIONS FROM CREATIVE TEAM
Like an Old Tale has drawn me into a world in which hundreds of people from all over the world retell an old story through sound, text, movement and image. How can music help or hinder our understanding of each other? Over the last year and a half we’ve worked together to create a musical world which makes room for different cultural traditions and skills. Some moments are soundscapes, while others are clearly operatic and driven by the vocal line. There have been break-through moments: the Bohemian chorus’ gutsy embrace of the call and response of the Daffodil song; Sharada singing Katrinile Varum Geetham while the Sicilian Choir sing a lament; Rosary and Sharada spinning a double lullaby together over the musical bed of the ensemble; mridangam drummer Sarma joining the groove in Rosary’s Water Song. When we read through the outline of the piece in the summer, I was struck by the compelling voices of children and seniors speaking passages from Shakespeare’s text: these extraordinary words are the bedrock of our collaboration. I am indebted to the generous contributions of Sharada Eswar and Rosary Spence, whose songs weave their way through the piece, and to the band (Adam, Adam, Aleksander, Alex and Martin) whose improvisations summon the Badlands and Bohemia. Thanks to everyone for giving voice to this new world!
- Juliet Palmer
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