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Sarah Angliss is an Ivor Novello Award winning composer and sound designer, creating new music and soundworlds for film, theatre, opera, dance, installations and her own live performances.
Jun 9, 2023 · This debut opera from composer Sarah Angliss and librettist Ross Sutherland is directed by Sarah Fahie. The World Premiere opened Aldeburgh Festival, 9 June 2023. Written for five voices, Giant also uses eighteenth century instruments, live electronics and the composer’s bespoke musical automata as it vividly recalls the events surrounding ...
Giant - composer and project instigator. World premiere opened Aldeburgh Festival June 2023. Librettist Ross Sutherland (dir. Sarah Fahie).
Giant, with music by Sarah Angliss and libretto by Ross Sutherland, was commissioned by Britten Pears Arts and first appeared at the Aldeburgh Festival in 2023. It explores the relationship between the eighteenth century British surgeon John Hunter and Charles Byrne who, measuring seven feet, seven inches (judged by his skeletal remains) was ...
Mar 11, 2024 · The British composer and sound designer Sarah Angliss received her inspiration for this new opera from a visit to the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons where she saw the huge...
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Sarah Angliss: Giant at Aldeburgh Festival | Live Review. Michael White. Monday, June 12, 2023. An utterly compelling sound world from Sarah Angliss's first opera to open the 2023 Aldeburgh Festival. Karim Sulyman and Gweneth Ann Rand | © Marc Brenner.
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‘Giant’, a new opera from Air-Edel’s visionary composer Sarah Angliss, poet Ross Sutherland and director Sarah Fahie, opens at the Linbury Theatre from the 8th-15th March. Giant tells the taut tale of surgeon John Hunter and his obsession with Charles Byrne – a man he would ultimately betray in one of the most disturbing acts in the era ...
