Four Saints in Three Acts
Victorian Opera Company 2016 at the Malthouse, Melbourne
Costume Design
Costume Rendering | Charlie Kinross Photography | Charlie Kinross Photography |
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Charlie Kinross Photography | Charlie Kinross Photography | Charlie Kinross Photography |
Charlie Kinross Photography | Charlie Kinross Photography |
Composer Virgil Thomson
Librettist Gertrude Stein
Director Nancy Black
Co-Director Dr Kim Vincs
Conductor Phoebe Briggs
Digital Scenography
Deakin Motion.Lab* under the direction of Dr Kim Vincs
Costume Design Candice MacAllister
About:
"After a choral introduction to thirty saints, a series of tableaux featuring St Teresa II unfolds on the steps of a Cathedral. At a garden party near Barcelona there is a dance, a game and a heavenly vision through a telescope. In a monastery garden, saints discuss monastic life and see a vision. In heaven, the saints remember their earthly life.
Composed by Virgil Thomson and with zany joyous poetry by celebrated writer Gertrude Stein,Four Saints in Three Acts makes for charmingly irrational theatre. Inspired by jazz, gospel and folk music this surreal work about 16th century Spanish saints directed by Nancy Black will feature youth opera performers, a youth orchestra conducted by Phoebe Briggs (Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street) and 3D scenic imagery (The Flying Dutchman) devised by Deakin Motion.Lab under the direction of Dr Kim Vincs."
Courtesy of the Victorian Opera Website