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Where the Wild Things Are

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Louise Fryer presents Oliver Knussen's Where the Wild Things Are, from Aldeburgh 2012.

Louise Fryer presents the opening concert from the 2012 Aldeburgh Festival. With Oliver Knussen's opera Where the Wild Things Are, based on the book by the late Maurice Sendak.

Live from the Snape Maltings Concert Hall

Presented by Louise Fryer 

The opening concert from the 2012 Aldeburgh Festival - an Oliver Knussen opera double bill.

'Children are the only reasonably sane audience' -Maurice Sendak.

The 2012 Aldeburgh Festival opens with a bang as two of the most imaginative children's books by the late Maurice Sendak are brought to life in an opera double bill from the festival's artist in residence Oliver Knussen. Ryan Wigglesworth conducts the Britten Sinfonia with a cast including Susanna Andersson, Susan Bickley, Claire Booth, Lucy Schaufer, Graeme Broadbent, Graeme Danby, Jonathan Gunthorpe and Christopher Lemmings in Where the Wild Things Are and Higglety Pigglety Pop! 

Oliver Knussen: Where the Wild Things Are

Singers: Susanna Andersson, Susan Bickley, Claire Booth, Lucy Schaufer, Graeme Broadbent, Graeme Danby, Jonathan Gunthorpe and Christopher Lemmings
Netia Jones director/designer
Britten Sinfonia
Conductor: Ryan Wigglesworth.

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Two Oliver Knussen operas, based on books by the late children's writer Maurice Sendak

Louise Fryer presents the opening concert from the 2012 Aldeburgh Festival, which features an Oliver Knussen opera double-bill, based on books by the late children's writer Maurice Sendak

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