ENO tackles anti-war epic
An opera in three acts, three film screens and over 100 musicians
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Your support makes all the difference.Nisa Berzeg, a Soho table-dancer, makes the leap into the grandest of grand opera as a waitress in a tavern in Soldiers at the London Coliseum.
The English National Opera's London premiere of Soldiers, Bernd Alois Zimmermann's rarely staged 1960s anti-war opera, has been both acclaimed as a masterpiece of multi-media and total theatre and rejected as unperform-able. Based on an 18th-century play, and first performed in Cologne in 1965, the score calls for an augmented orchestra of 100-plus, five conductors, three film screens and four offstage percussion groups - with enough gear to stage a war themselves.
Directed by Michael Freeman, Eno's production has been described as contemporary opera's ultimate challenge.
There are further performances on 26, 28 November, and 5, 10, 12 December. (Booking: 0171-632 8300)
Critics, Real Life, p11
Photograph by LAURIE LEWIS
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