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From: Ben Morgan <[log in to unmask]>
The British stage premiere of Max Brand's opera "Maschinist
Hopkins" (1929) will take place this Sunday.
Sunday 25th November, 2pm at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London.
South Bank Centre Box office: 020 7960 4242
Tickets £18.50, £15.50, £12.50, £8.50
Max Brand's opera was a runaway success in the latter years of
the Weimar Republic, but was banned in 1933, and subsequently
fell into undeserved obscurity. It blends grand operatic ambitions
with a cinematically inspired plot, riotous 1920s jazz, popular
dance idioms, Puccini-esque emotional intensity and musical
expressionism.
Only one performance - not to be missed!
It is being staged as part of the Jewish Music Institute's Forum for
Suppressed Music: "Thwarted Voices: Music Suppressed by the
Third Reich". The production is a collaboration of professional
singers and production team (The Baker's Opera) with the Music
Faculty, Department of German and the Computer Laboratory's
Rainbow Group at the University of Cambridge, and the Cambridge
University Opera Society.
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The British stage premiere of Max Brand's "Maschinist Hopkins",
2pm Sunday November 25th, 2001, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
A co-production of the Baker's Opera and the Cambridge University
Opera Society made possible by the generous support of
BP plc, The Jewish Music Institute, the German Embassy, the
Music Faculty, the German Department, the Judith E. Wilson and
Gertrude Kingston Funds of the University of Cambridge, the Lord
Ashdown Charitable Settlement, the Nicholas John Trust,
Schlumberger Research Cambridge, Cambridge Consultants Ltd,
and NTL
Contact:
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www.cam.ac.uk/societies/cuops/hopkins
The Baker's Opera is a member of the Independent Theatre Council
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