“This experience could be life-changing for these young people” - the Manchester International Festival opera that’s making waves
This weekend there were biblical scenes in Greater Manchester as the region was hit by torrential rains and intense thunderstorms, following a short period of intense heat Punters were evacuated from a pub in Wetherspoons In Chorlton after it flooded and at Depot Mayfield in the city centre, water could be seen gushing through the ceiling and pouring onto tables at Freight Island.
The production premiered at the Leeds community venue The Warehouse in Holbeck, Leeds on Friday, and yesterday, the Manchester Evening News was invited down to Depot Mayfield for dress rehearsal ahead of its afternoon showing as part of Manchester International Festival. “I think it’s really important that we’re creating work here in the North that people can look at nationally with respect. It’s not second best, it's epic in scale and quality.”
“We rehearsed the opera in Holbeck where there’s a lot of precarity, a lot of children moving in and out, a lot of children who have fled all sorts of things who know what it is to get in a boat and not know whether it is safe or not, so that’s also part of our story here. Two-by-two, and guided only by light wands, a flock of children all from Leeds’ Ingram Road Primary School, donning antlers, bunny ears and wings, charged down the aisle, singing “Kyrie, elesion”, meaning Lord, have mercy”, as they took their places on the stage. There were bears and the crows like Britten talked about, but there were also dragons, dinosaurs, jellyfish, and animals that didn’t exist until they sat down with the show’s costume designer and conjured them with words.
“Britten’s piece was written almost 70 years ago and it’s incredibly relevant today. We’re talking about a boat with thousands of migrants on it causing a storm, that’s what Noah did, he was essentially an immigrant in search of dry land on a perilous journey - if that is not contemporary then I don’t know what is.”
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