| 2007 |
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Super
Fast Chickens
Installation by Hannah Bolland and Edward Mortimer
to accompany Opera North's production of The
Adventures of Pinocchio. Shown at 42 New Briggate
Gallery in 2007. |
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Dinu
Li: The Mother of All Journeys
Exhibition by photographer Dinu Li to accompany
Opera North's production of Madama
Butterfly. Shown at 42 New Briggate Gallery
in 2007. |
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Hylo
Projection
work by Andy Eccleston and Ron Wright to accompany
Mozart's The
Magic Flute. Shown at 42 New Briggate Gallery
in 2007. |
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Cockaigne
Photographic exhibition
by Gayle Chong Kwan to accompany the Opera North
production of Monteverdi's Orfeo.
Shown at 42 New Briggate Gallery in 2007. |
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Orchard Park
and Journey
to the Lower World
Exhibition
by Andy Lock (Orchard Park) and Marcus Coates
(Journey to the Lower World) to accompany Katya
Kabanova and Les Noces. Shown at 42 New Briggate
Gallery in 2007. |
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Dead Wedding
A contemporary re-imagining
of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth for puppets,
laptop and live musicians by Faulty Optic and
composer Mira Calix. Premiered at the Manchester
International Festival 2007 and toured. |
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Foaie Verde (Green
Leaf)
Event,
exploring traditional Transylvanian music from
Romania.Violinist Joe Townsend performed with
singer Dana Codorean-Berciu and an ensemble of
7 musicans, accompanied with photographs by Dominick
Tyler. At the West Yorkshire Playhouse in 2007. |
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Nothing Like the
Sun - The Sonnets Project
Commission
and tour of chamber work by Gavin Bryars, with
guest composers Antony Hegarty, Nico Muhly, Mira
Calix, Natalie Merchant, Gavin Friday and Alexander
Balanescu, and film by Pippa Nissen. Premiered
as part of RSC's Complete Works of Shakespeare
Festival 2007. |
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Orpheus Speaks
A series of talks
by celebrated contemporary writers on the influence
of classic Greek mythology in contemporary fiction..
Adam Phillips, Simon Armitage, Sean O'Brien and
Hilary Mantel. |
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Resonance
Residency and performance
of new chamber opera Unsupported Transit, by Paul
Clark and John Binias. |
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The Orpheus Myth
in Modern Culture
A
three day series of symposia, film screenings
and performances, held in partnership with the
University of Leeds. |
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Peter and the Wolf
The Orchestra of Opera
North performed live to a new animated film version
of Prokofiev’s classic Peter and the Wolf. |
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Kindertotenlieder
Five room film and
music installation by Mariele Neudecker, inspired
by Mahler's 1901 song cycle. |
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What I Heard About
Iraq
Commission
and performance of new chamber work by Stephen
McNeff based on Eliot Weinberger's Iraq War text. |
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Resonance III
Performances of new
experimental operas; Cremenville, by
SharpWire and The Life and Times of Ioavan
Iorgovan (Saint George) by Joe Townsend,
with Helen Chadwick, Nawroz Oramari and Martin
Green. |
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Traveltopia
Exhibition by photographer
Melanie Wagner to accompany Opera North's production
of Verdi's Rigoletto. This exhibition opened the
42 New Briggate Gallery in 2006. |
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Identity in Crisis
- The Lone Voice
A series of talks
and performances at the RNCM, inspired by Opera
North's season at The Lowry. |
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Songs without Words
Symposium on Bach's
writing for the solo musician, with violin recital
by David Greed. |
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