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Aldeburgh Festival: The to Passion
Humphrey Burton presents one of the highlights of this year's Aldeburgh Festival: the new chamber music theatre piece by Harrison Birtwistle , who turns 70 next month. The lo Passion, for string quartet, clarinet and six performers, to a text by Stephen Plaice , combines Magritte-type imagery, ritual and myth, and a powerful score exploring the darker side of sexual obsession. The Almeida Opera production is directed at the Snape Maltings, Suffolk, by Stephen Langridge.
Teresa Banham and Joseph Alessi (actors),
Claire Booth and Amy Fretton (sopranos), Sam McElroy and Richard Morris (baritones),
Quatuor Diotima , director Alan Hacker (clarinet)

Contributors

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Humphrey Burton
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Harrison Birtwistle
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Stephen Plaice
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Stephen Langridge.
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Teresa Banham
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Joseph Alessi
Sopranos:
Amy Fretton
Sopranos:
Sam McElroy
Sopranos:
Richard Morris
Baritones:
Quatuor Diotima
Clarinet:
Alan Hacker
Source: Radio Times

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