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earth.voice.body

earth.voice.body

The Shape of the Earth
by Jack Symonds & Pierce Wilcox
 
La voix humaine 
by Francis Poulenc & Jean Cocteau
 
Quatre instants
by Kaija Saariaho & Amin Maalouf 
A new Australian work, a major statement by a leading living international composer and a radical interpretation of a 20th century classic: experience SCO’s aesthetic mission in a single evening.

Poulenc’s classic La voix humaine is a shattering portrait of lost love – as heard through only one side of a dramatic phone call. Celeste Lazarenko (The Rape of Lucretia) will inhabit this woman with her characteristic emotional truth. Kaija Saariaho’s Quatre instants also maps the terrain of intoxicated passion, but from a 21st century female perspective: an ocean of sound unleashed from the rich voice of Emily Edmonds (Owen Wingrave, His Music Burns). 
 
Directed together by Clemence Williams (Breaking Glass), these vivid monodramas of desire will be complemented by Jack Symonds’s The Shape of the Earth starring Mitchell Riley and directed by Alexander Berlage (Future Remains). Described by the SMH as “a hugely impressive co-creation… an outstanding tour-de-force of nuanced vocal flexibility, dissembling characterisation and physical theatre” in its one-off showing in 2018’s Resonant Bodies Festival, this contemporary gloss on Patrick White’s Voss pulls apart the voice to breaking point, before reconstructing an inner landscape of glowing intensity.
 
Three voices pushed to their limits; three bodies living extraordinary stories. 
Directors
Alexander Berlage & Clemence Williams
 
Lighting Design
Alexander Berlage
 
Sound Design
Benjamin Carey

Emily Edmonds
Celeste Lazarenko
Mitchell Riley
Jack Symonds

Gallery

Dates

29 September – 
7 October 2023

VENUE

Carriageworks
Bay 20
245 Wilson St Eveleigh NSW 2016

duration

2 hours & 10 minutes, including one 20 minute interval

TICKET prices

Available from Carriageworks in mid-2023

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Book In Song

BOOK
IN SONG

Presented by Phoenix Central Park

June 12, 5:30pm

Jane Sheldon

June 12, 7:30pm

Anna Fraser

June 19, 5:30pm

Emily Edmonds

June 19, 7:30pm

Simon Lobelson

July 10, 5:30pm
(postponed from June 26)

Simon Lobelson

July 10, 7:30pm
(postponed from June 26)

Emily Edmonds

July 17, 5:30pm
(postponed from July 3)

Anna Fraser

July 17, 7:30pm
(postponed from July 3)

Jane Sheldon

Date & TIME

Sat June 12
5:30PM —  Jane Sheldon
7:30PM — Anna Fraser

Sat June 19
5:30PM — Emily Edmonds
7:30PM — Simon Lobelson

Postponed Performances:

Sat June 26 July 10
5:30PM — Simon Lobelson
7:30PM — Emily Edmonds

Sat July 3 July 17
5:30PM — Anna Fraser
7:30PM — Jane Sheldon

VENUE

‘The Church’
9 Mitchell Rd. Alexandria

duration
4x 60 minute long programs, each
presented twice
TICKET prices

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We acknowledge the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation as the traditional custodians of the land on which we work and perform. We honour their elders both past and present, and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

© 2020 Sydney Chamber Opera | Site designed & built by Anderson Chang