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New Music North West: Afternoon Concert
Tim Benjamin Prologue and Scene One from Emily (world première)
Rebecca Lea soprano
Jonathan Ainscough bass-baritone
Matthew Kellett baritone
Re:Sound present the first of two gripping pieces of contemporary music theatre by Tim Benjamin featuring striking female protagonists…
Militant… Hunger Striker… Terrorist… Martyr?
Emily is a new opera on the suffragette Emily Wilding Davison. Her death under the hooves of the King’s horse
at the 1913 Epsom Derby was hailed as the act of a martyr by some, and
dismissed as an accident due to contemptuous folly by others, and both
controversy and mystery still surround her precise actions on that fateful day.
Throughout her life Emily Davison was no stranger to
unconventional, even violent, political action, and the opera Emily – drawing entirely on original
sources – traces these acts of protest leading up to her death in a sequence of
detailed and at times harrowing flashbacks.
Re:Sound will be performing the Prologue and Scene I of Emily, in advance of the world premiere
in 2013, one hundred years after Davison’s death.
Event Information:
Date & Time - Friday, 09 March 2012, 5:15PM - 6:00PM
Venue - RNCM Studio Theatre
Ticket Price - Free admission, no ticket required
Concessions - Concessions unavailable
