THE PROMETHEUS REVOLUTION
Fulham Opera/Grimeborn Festival | Arcola Theatre | 2018
Star-crossed lovers, rebellion and revolution against the backdrop of a corrupt political class. What would you sacrifice for lasting peace?
Keith Burnstein’s new opera is a ravishing vision of our society crossing beyond the threshold of war towards a new age of peace and mutual respect.
The activists within a peace movement find themselves playing out the eternal myth of Prometheus, who took the fire from the Gods to give it to the mortals. But they too may pay a high price for their audacity…
Shot through with pathos and ironic humour, this dark parable is laced with the sounds of vaudeville, Broadway musical and pop ballads.
In the centenary year of the end of World War 1, Fulham Opera present a melodic and intensely lyrical new opera of passion, power and high emotion, presenting a radical and challenging evocation of the moment Humanity takes charge of the world.
Live piano music, performed in English.
Director: Sophie Gilpin
Music Director: Ben Woodward
Composer: Keith Bernstein
Designer: Sunny Smith
Lighting Daniel Farr
Peter: Alex Haigh
Aaron: Robert Garland
Wona: Caroline Garragher
Des: James Schouten
Pandora: Lucie Louvrier
Zapruder: Nick Dwyer
General Clarke: Gerard Delrez
Hanson: Ian Wilson-Pope
Iris: Luci Briginshaw
Delia: Christine Cook
Rosemary: Olivia Barry
TV reporter: James Bowers