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Intense and disturbing, a story without any redemption: Stephen McNeff's new opera A Star Next to the Moon based on Juan Rulfo's novel Pedro Páramo
[…] With a libretto by Aoife Mannix based Juan Rulfo's novel Pedro Páramo, the opera has had a long journey to fruition as Stephen McNeff discussed in my recent interview with him, but creating a large-scale new opera in two acts with a cast of eleven, chorus and orchestra is no small achievement indeed. Martin Lloyd-Evans directed and Dominic Wheeler conducted with designs by Anna Reid. Jacob Harrison was Pedro Páramo, Holly Brown was Susana, Steven van der Linden was Juan Preciado, plus Emyr Lloyd Jones, Rachel Roper, Joe Chalmers, Shana Moron-Caravel, Vladyslava Ionascu-Yokovenko, Jonah Halton, Yolisa Ngwexana and Ana-Carmen Balestra.Following a death-bed promise to his mother, Juan Preciado (Steven van der Linden) travels to Comala to seek out his father, Pedro Páramo. In Comala, Juan finds people that knew his mother but he comes to realise that the town is populated by ghosts and he becomes more fevered and confused. The […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2021-01-15 21:31:00
Why Conspiracy Theories Are So Attractive To So Many
Experts say that the majority of people do not easily fall for falsehoods. But when misinformation offers simple, casual explanations for otherwise random events, “it helps restore a sense of agency and control for many people,” says Sander van der Linden, a social psychologist at the University of Cambridge. – National Geographic
2019-10-14 01:48:42
BY KIYA VAN der Linden-KIAN Meeting Points Series: Leaf and ShadowAustralian Art Orchestra with guestsArts Centre Melbourne, 22 September Meeting Points is a collaboration between
2019-10-14 01:19:04
BY KIYA VAN der Linden-KIAN Spaces of Life and DeathEli Simic-Prosic (composer/curator), Elliott Gyger (conductor), Tamara Kohler (flutes), Kaylie Melville (percussion), Gemma Kneale (cello), Jacob
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