The Minotaur Trilogy
The Minotaur Trilogy.
Chamber Made Opera and Melbourne Recital Centre in association with Melbourne Festival
presented The Minotaur Trilogy by Margaret Cameron and David Young
in October 2012. Creators: Margaret Cameron and David Young
Performers: Deborah Kayser, Caroline Lee, Hellen Sky and Ida Duelund Hansen
Double Bass: Mark Cauvin
Percussion: Matthias Schack-Arnott
Harpsichord: Anastasia Russell-Head
for program details click on link below
www.chambermadeopera.com/program/Minotaur_The_Island
THE MINO-TOUR: NOVEMBER 2011
SYDNEY
13th Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address
Populism as Art and the Art of Populism
Address given by Lyndon Terracini followed by a performance of MINOTAUR THE ISLAND
Wednesday 2 November 2011 at 6pm
The Mint, 10 Macquarie Street, Sydney
For information on this event, please visit the NMN website
MELBOURNE
13th Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address
Populism as Art and the Art of Populism
Address given by Lyndon Terracini followed by a performance of MINOTAUR THE ISLAND
Friday 11 November 2011 at 7.30pm
BMW Edge, Federation Square, Melbourne
For information on this event, please visit the NMN website
MT MACEDON
In partnership with Macedon Music
Saturday 12 November 2011 at 7pm &
Sunday 13 November 2011 at 5pm
trybooking.com/12453
The 13th Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address is presented by the New Music Network
"Minotaur is a place—the island of Minotaur. The music is tense—just out of reach—fracturing and breaking into bits—travelling through corridors. The objects are the island, and are moved around the space like flotsam from a shipwreck." Minotaur - The Island, or The Lost Opera Act I
Chamber Made Opera's new production
MINOTAUR - THE ISLAND
Presented by Chamber Made Opera and Ten Days on the Island
WORLD PREMIERE
BRUNY ISLAND, TASMANIA
Dennes Point Community Hall
26-27 March 2011
MELBOURNE SEASON
A Private Living Room
1-3 April 2011
Virtually all the music for Monteverdi’s 1608 opera L’Arianna, one of the most influential and famous examples of early Baroque opera, has been lost. MINOTAUR sees Melbourne-based Chamber Made Opera reconstruct a contemporary chamber version in three parts, the first of which, THE ISLAND, will receive its world premiere at Dennes Point on Bruny Island.
Exploring the mythological and visual symbolism of the Minotaur, Ariadne and the labyrinthine structure of the maze, MINOTAUR echoes the story of Ariadne, Mistress of the Labyrinth, abandoned on the island of Naxos by Theseus. Chamber Made Opera will be working on Bruny Island as artists-in-residence, engaging with the Bruny community to create and present the first part of this project.
Composer: David Young
Writer/Director: Margaret Cameron
Performers: Deborah Kayser, Caroline Lee, Hellen Sky and Ida Duelund Hansen
Double Bass: Mark Cauvin
Percussion: Matthias Schack-Arnott
Harpsichord: Anastasia Russell-Head
MINOTAUR - THE ISLAND has been co-commissioned by Ten Days on the Island and Dr Peta Gillingham. Part of the New Music Network 2011 Series.
REVIEWS AND WRITINGS
Ten Days on the Island's 2011 festival program
"Looking forward to adventures…turning a most impossible ear toward the lost opera Minotaur—the Island (Chamber Made Opera, Ten Days on the Island)…to salt winds on the Bruny Island ferry…to living with ‘the company’ and ‘lunching’ with the audience."
Margaret Cameron
RealTime Arts, realtime 101: what next-2011?
"The event is immediately domestic and improvised, but the effect is fascinating: it's a re-enactment of a myth that draws out of these humble objects a compelling sense of ritual. I found the performance wholly absorbing, and started thinking about the Lares, the household gods of the Romans, where the domestic sphere is also the site of the sacred."
Theatre Notes, Review - Minotaur by Alison Croggon
"The intimate opera crowd was enthralled by the production with a harpsichord played by an Elizabethan player dressed in a Baroque dress and a seagulls head, a tall percussionist in drag with an op shop hat on his head, as well as the double bass player also in drag scratching and strumming along. A long haired singer performed in an other worldly performance from another world and time from a lost era."
The Opera Boys We rely on the mindfulness of strangers
www.chambermadeopera.com/program/Minotaur_The_Island
THE MINO-TOUR: NOVEMBER 2011
SYDNEY
13th Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address
Populism as Art and the Art of Populism
Address given by Lyndon Terracini followed by a performance of MINOTAUR THE ISLAND
Wednesday 2 November 2011 at 6pm
The Mint, 10 Macquarie Street, Sydney
For information on this event, please visit the NMN website
MELBOURNE
13th Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address
Populism as Art and the Art of Populism
Address given by Lyndon Terracini followed by a performance of MINOTAUR THE ISLAND
Friday 11 November 2011 at 7.30pm
BMW Edge, Federation Square, Melbourne
For information on this event, please visit the NMN website
MT MACEDON
In partnership with Macedon Music
Saturday 12 November 2011 at 7pm &
Sunday 13 November 2011 at 5pm
trybooking.com/12453
The 13th Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address is presented by the New Music Network
"Minotaur is a place—the island of Minotaur. The music is tense—just out of reach—fracturing and breaking into bits—travelling through corridors. The objects are the island, and are moved around the space like flotsam from a shipwreck." Minotaur - The Island, or The Lost Opera Act I
Chamber Made Opera's new production
MINOTAUR - THE ISLAND
Presented by Chamber Made Opera and Ten Days on the Island
WORLD PREMIERE
BRUNY ISLAND, TASMANIA
Dennes Point Community Hall
26-27 March 2011
MELBOURNE SEASON
A Private Living Room
1-3 April 2011
Virtually all the music for Monteverdi’s 1608 opera L’Arianna, one of the most influential and famous examples of early Baroque opera, has been lost. MINOTAUR sees Melbourne-based Chamber Made Opera reconstruct a contemporary chamber version in three parts, the first of which, THE ISLAND, will receive its world premiere at Dennes Point on Bruny Island.
Exploring the mythological and visual symbolism of the Minotaur, Ariadne and the labyrinthine structure of the maze, MINOTAUR echoes the story of Ariadne, Mistress of the Labyrinth, abandoned on the island of Naxos by Theseus. Chamber Made Opera will be working on Bruny Island as artists-in-residence, engaging with the Bruny community to create and present the first part of this project.
Composer: David Young
Writer/Director: Margaret Cameron
Performers: Deborah Kayser, Caroline Lee, Hellen Sky and Ida Duelund Hansen
Double Bass: Mark Cauvin
Percussion: Matthias Schack-Arnott
Harpsichord: Anastasia Russell-Head
MINOTAUR - THE ISLAND has been co-commissioned by Ten Days on the Island and Dr Peta Gillingham. Part of the New Music Network 2011 Series.
REVIEWS AND WRITINGS
Ten Days on the Island's 2011 festival program
"Looking forward to adventures…turning a most impossible ear toward the lost opera Minotaur—the Island (Chamber Made Opera, Ten Days on the Island)…to salt winds on the Bruny Island ferry…to living with ‘the company’ and ‘lunching’ with the audience."
Margaret Cameron
RealTime Arts, realtime 101: what next-2011?
"The event is immediately domestic and improvised, but the effect is fascinating: it's a re-enactment of a myth that draws out of these humble objects a compelling sense of ritual. I found the performance wholly absorbing, and started thinking about the Lares, the household gods of the Romans, where the domestic sphere is also the site of the sacred."
Theatre Notes, Review - Minotaur by Alison Croggon
"The intimate opera crowd was enthralled by the production with a harpsichord played by an Elizabethan player dressed in a Baroque dress and a seagulls head, a tall percussionist in drag with an op shop hat on his head, as well as the double bass player also in drag scratching and strumming along. A long haired singer performed in an other worldly performance from another world and time from a lost era."
The Opera Boys We rely on the mindfulness of strangers
