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    POSTPONED - The Cooperative - A Contemporary Double Bill: Emilie & Threading the Light

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    The Cooperative presents an Australian premiere and a world premiere in a thrilling contemporary double bill.

    Kaija Saariaho’s dramatically charged Émilie is a monodrama for soprano re-envisaged for a team of five artists, telling the story of extraordinary enlightenment scientist and scholar Émilie du Châtelet during her final and ultimately fatal pregnancy. This opera explores the role of women as scientists and scholars in the deeply personal universal context of childbirth, and dissects the inescapable complexities of life as women.

    Designed for live performance with real time interaction between performed and pre-recorded elements, Felicity Wilcox’s Threading the Light (World Premiere)  is a multimedia gem-like concert opera for string orchestra, singers and percussion, electronic surround sound and images. The title refers to the universal phenomenon of ritual, a constant in human culture designed to transcend worldly concerns. The work features surround diffusion effects and delay and spectral processing that invite us to be drawn into this sculptural work structured in four movements named after elements commonly associated with ritual practices: I Light, II Water, III Blood, and IV Fire. Text for the work has been sourced from prayers and contemplative writings across a broad range of faiths. Evocative, haunting, beautiful, and compelling, it’s a pertinent and cathartic work for our world today.

    When: June 3, 4 2022 | 7.30PM

    Where: Pitt St Uniting Church, 264 Pitt St, Sydney

    Émilie

    Music Director: Leonard Weiss

    Director: Lucy Scott

    Émilie du Châtelet - Elizabeth Cooper

                                   Joanna Dionis Ross

                                    Kirralee Hillier

                                    Rachel Mink

                                    Xiaoxu Aleta Shang

    Threading the Light

    Music Director: Joanna Drimatis

    Director: Lucy Scott

    Soloists - Katrina Mackenzie

                   Janine Harris

                  Brendan McRae


     
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