{"id":540,"date":"2018-05-07T09:53:44","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T09:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.corange.org\/FREDERIC\/?p=540"},"modified":"2018-05-19T09:23:40","modified_gmt":"2018-05-19T09:23:40","slug":"the-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.corange.org\/FREDERIC\/the-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2018 \/ Mahogany Opera<\/p>\n<p>Music: Laurence Osborn<br \/>\nText: Theo Merz<\/p>\n<p>A mother and a son, a son and a mother.<br \/>\nThings had to be this way and couldn\u2019t be another.<\/p>\n<p>Leon dreams of changing the world with his radical philosophy but the explosive, suffocating, mutually destructive relationship he has with his mother leaves little time for anything or anyone else.<\/p>\n<p>The Mother is an adaptation of the absurdist play Matka by Polish writer Witkacy (Stanis\u0142aw Ignacy Witkiewicz). Indebted to Eastern European theatre, it is a bitingly satirical and explosive response to the traditions of opera. Osborn plunges the audience into an anarchic, surrealist world through taut, intense music that draws on Weill, Birtwistle, and Romitelli, alongside mainstream pop influences.<\/p>\n<p>The Mother: Lore Lixenberg<br \/>\nLeon: James Hall<br \/>\nDorothea: Lindsay Bramley<br \/>\nFather: Geoffrey Dolton<br \/>\nSophia: Rebecca Bottone<br \/>\nAcademic and De Proud: Andrew Dickinson<br \/>\nTheatre Owner and Modesta: Daniel Norman<\/p>\n<p>Staging: Frederic Wake-Walker<br \/>\nLighting: Sylwester \u0141uczak<br \/>\nConductor: Jamie Man<br \/>\nRepetiteur &#038; Pianist: Yshani Perinpanayagam<br \/>\nOrchestra: CHROMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2018 \/ Mahogany Opera Music: Laurence Osborn Text: Theo Merz A mother and a son, a son and a mother. Things had to be this way and couldn\u2019t be another. 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