A composer takes charge of homeless opera

A composer takes charge of homeless opera

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norman lebrecht

February 14, 2019

Streetwise Opera has named Hannah Conway as its next artistic director.

She is a widely commissioned composer.

Streetwise is an opera company for people who are or have been homeless.

Comments

  • John Borstlap says:

    It’s a community work composer:

    http://hannahconway.co.uk/?projects=musical-director

    https://vimeo.com/81046611

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBmZGZ0PoO8

    Her work does not appear to be about music, but about social intervention.

    Whether sharing culture with the homeless would improve their accomodation problems, remains to be seen. But it may be that discovering the fate of Dido, Donna Anna’s father, Norma and Pollione, Siegmund, Siegfried, Don Carlo and Posa, Salome, Elektra, Pelléas and Wozzeck, will put their own problems in some perspective.

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