Event overview
World premiere film screening of a new fashion-opera for soprano and saxophone by PhD student Alastair White.
In the medieval Scottish Borders, a young boy is bewitched - into the form of an ape, an adder, a speck of dust. But is it his shape that twists and churns, or that of the world around him? WOAD is a fashion-opera about metamorphosis and parallel worlds - from the team behind the groundbreaking WEAR (“spellbinding...an opera of rare imagination” - Boulezian) and ROBE (“highly poetic…the music is excellent” - BBC Music Magazine). Featuring the high fashion of Renli Su and award-winning soprano Kelly Poukens, Alastair White’s WOAD adapts the Scots myth of Tamlane to ask: in a multiverse of endless possibility, what becomes of our potential, our regret?
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Kelly Poukens is an international artist whose recent highlights include Regan in King Lear (Holland Opera) and solo recitals at the Henry Le Boeuf Hall. Saxophonist Suzy Vanderheiden’s distinguished career sees her tour worldwide, currently as a soloist with her saxophone quartet and in the Royal Harmonie Tessenderlo. Renli Su is a globally-recognised fashion designer whose collections are characterised by her sense of nostalgia: where a love for old craftsman’s techniques is balanced with innovative, modern methods. Shortlisted for several Scottish art awards, composer-librettist Alastair White’s work is characterised by a lyrical complexity described as “virtuosic” (Winnipeg Free Press), “passionately atonal” (Gramophone) and "deftly manic" (American Record Guide) Fashion curator Gemma A. Wiliams is author of Fashion China (Thames & Hudson). WOAD is produced by UU Studios, a fashion-opera collective co-founded by Williams and White.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 16 Jun 2021 | 7:30pm - 9:30pm |
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