Lliam Paterson : The Eighth Door
28, 30 Mar 2017; 1 Apr 2017
Music-theatre prequel to Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle
Glasgow, Theatre Royal
Scottish Opera
Conductor Sian Edwards
Director Matthew Lenton
Sets Kai Fischer
Costumes Jessica Brettle
video Kai Fischer
Lighting Kai Fischer
Performed with Bartok: Bluebeard’s Castle
World premiere
On tour to:
Festival Theatre, Edinburgh: 5, 08 Apr 2017

A new co-production with Vanishing Point Lliam Paterson : The Eighth Door
Bartók’s beautiful, mysterious opera is staged in collaboration with visionary Scottish theatre company Vanishing Point, and directed by its founder Matthew Lenton. Making full use of his talent for visually compelling storytelling, Bluebeard is presented alongside The 8th Door, a new music theatre work he has co-created with Scottish Opera Composer in Residence Lliam Paterson. They explore the ‘before’ of Bluebeard’s gruesome story – creating an ambitious double bill to enthral and intrigue.

‘Bluebeard was very innovative for its day; what better way to complement it than to create an equally ground-breaking piece for our own era?’
Matthew Lenton & Lliam Paterson

The music of Bluebeard contrasts the powerful intimacy of just two singers with huge orchestral forces – delivering a wealth of textures and soundscapes, from the spine-tingling to the truly unsettling. Internationally acclaimed stars Karen Cargill and Robert Hayward sing Judith and Bluebeard. Sian Edwards (The Rake’s Progress 2012) conducts both works.

Prologue & Opening
First Door (The Torture Chamber)
Third Door (The Treasury)
Fifth Door (Bluebeard’s Kingdom)
Sixth Door (Tears)

Lliam Paterson : The Eighth Door

Duke Bluebeard’s Castle: Licensed by agreement with Warner Classics
http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Warner%2BClassics/5561622
Anne Sofie von Otter · John Tomlinson · Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra · Bernard Haitink

Funded by the PRS for Music Foundation
Supported by Scottish Opera’s New Commissions Circle
Sung in Hungarian with English Supertitles

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Season: Sep-May
Capacity: 1541 seats

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Lliam Paterson : The Eighth Door