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2024-02-23 19:13:01
INTERVIEW | Soprano Measha Brueggergosman-Lee And Composer Aaron Davis Talk About Zombie Blizzard
Zombie Blizzard brings together soprano Measha Brueggergosman-Lee, author Margaret Atwood, composer Aaron Davis, and the Hannaford Street Silver Band.
2024-02-06 05:00:46
American star dazzles in Dido and Aeneas while ENO updates its Margaret Atwood opera
2024-02-04 12:40:13
The Handmaid’s Tale review – Poul Ruders’s opera shows Atwood’s novel has lost none of its relevance
London ColiseumWhile it shies away from some of the brutality of the book, the ENO’s uncluttered staging gives space to the sharply drawn characters and revels in sumptuous atonalityBudget cuts may have compelled English National Opera to rely more heavily on revivals this season, but a fresh outing for Danish composer Poul Ruders’s operatic version of The Handmaid’s Tale is no bad thing. With women’s rights under pressure worldwide, Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel has lost none of its relevance or ability to chill.Set in an America hijacked by a right-wing, patriarchal theocracy, the falling birthrate has forced elite males and their infertile wives to rely on “handmaids” – women with a proven ability to conceive – to produce their children. Offred – literally a woman “owned” by Fred –was caught escaping across the Canadian border and sent to a Red Centre, a facility run by older women known as Aunts. Assigned […]
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