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World Premiere world premiere 6–9 March 2013 elcome to the world premiere performances of Imago – the latest in a distinguished series of Wcommunity operas commissioned by our education department. Of these operas Imago is our most ambitious yet, with over 70 amateur performers, from teenagers to those in their seventies, working alongside professional soloists. In the pit, players from the celebrated Aurora Orchestra join 25 young musicians. Projects which mix amateur and professional performers can move and engage everyone involved in an extraordinary way. Amateur performers are inspired by the skills and experience around them. Professional artists are invigorated by mentoring and encouraging a community keen and eager to learn. We as an audience experience an intensity of commitment on the stage and in the pit, which feels quite diff erent to an ordinary night in the theatre. This potent mix is further enhanced when the performance takes place on Glyndebourne’s renowned stage, with the full back-up of our outstanding technical departments and a world class creative and production team. Imago has been created and developed with the same care and resource as anything you will see in our Festival or Tour. This care is testament to the importance we attach to this work. We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the vision and commitment of many generous supporters. Arts Council England led the way in committing funds from the earliest stages of the project. Their invaluable support encouraged many other trusts, foundations and individuals to contribute to Imago. Without such support this ambitious endeavour could never have been realised. I hope you enjoy the show as much as we at Glyndebourne have enjoyed creating it. David Pickard, General Director Imago was commissioned by Glyndebourne and Scottish Opera. Public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England It has been made possible thanks to support from a number of generous individuals and organisations. Glyndebourne is grateful Beyond Borders from the PRS for to the following for their support: Music Foundation, Creative Scotland, Arts Council Northern Ireland, Arts Council Wales and the Colwinston Charitable Trust East Sussex County Council Beyond Borders 2011 South Downs National Park Authority through the Sustainable Communities Fund Grant-aided by Sustainable Communities Fund Imago An opera in two acts by Orlando Gough with a libretto by Stephen Plaice Conductor Nicholas Collon Director Susannah Waters Designers Es Devlin & Bronia Housman Lighting Designer Paul Pyant Video Designer Finn Ross Movement Director Christopher Tudor Chorus Master Lee Reynolds Sound Designer Simon Cassford Assistant Director Fiona Dunn Assistant Conductor Christopher Stark Music Preparation Nicholas Bosworth, Nancy Cooley Cast Elizabeth Jean Rigby Andy Daniel Norman Lisette Joanna Songi The Moderator Zac West Annie Freya Wynn-Jones Gulliver Adam Gilbert Zak Mark Enticknap Rory Raefn Webber (6 & 8 March)/ Flint Pascoe-Easterby (7 & 9 March) Rufus James Brock Stella Thomasin Trezise Nurse Jenny McCalmont Croupier Michele Restieux The Admirer Adam Drew Hip Vicar George Ikediashi Doctor Steve Hawksley Trusts and Foundations Investment from The NGP can only invest in Andor Trust Glyndebourne’s New projects like Imago thanks to the Charles Peel Charitable Trust Generation Programme private support of individuals and The John S Cohen Foundation organisations and we are extremely D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust MariaMarina Foundation grateful for any donations we receive The Bernard Sunley Charitable towards this work. If you have Foundation Funding from Glyndebourne’s New enjoyed today’s performance and The Michael Tippet Music Foundation Generation Programme (NGP) would like to make a contribution Tufton Charitable Trust has supported Imago. The NGP towards the work of the NGP, or if you was launched in 2009 as part of would like to discuss other ways you Individual Supporters Glyndebourne’s 75th anniversary could support Glyndebourne, please Vahid Alaghband celebrations, with the aim of making contact Andrew Higgins, Head of Mr R J Berman Glyndebourne’s future as inspiring Membership and Development. Mr and Mrs Michael Farmer Lord and Lady Lloyd of Berwick as its past. The NGP enables us to Joanna Dickinson Leach invest in a sustainable programme Mr Ian Nussey of audience and artist development +44 (0)1273 815 415 Patti and George White initiatives each year. [email protected] Imago - our new community opera mago is the latest example of the long- Iterm commitment from Glyndebourne’s education department to place work with young people and the community centre- stage. Since 1990 these groups have been invited to participate in a number of specially commissioned large-scale operas. These unique opportunities have also helped us to build a wider audience for opera. In 2010 Glyndebourne staged Knight Crew by composer Julian Philips and librettist Nicky Singer. This landmark production on the main stage was seen by over 4,500 people, received outstanding critical acclaim and was the subject of a BBC2 documentary Gareth Malone Goes to Glyndebourne. Each episode was seen by two million people and the programme won the 2011 International Emmy Award for Best Arts Programme. Most recently Stephen Plaice and Luke Styles (Glyndebourne Young Composer in Residence) were commissioned to write Lovers Walk. This was performed in October 2012 by a specially formed Youth Company at the Birley Centre, Eastbourne College and in the Jerwood Studio as part of the Glyndebourne Tour. Work began on Imago in 2011 when composer Orlando Gough, librettist Stephen Plaice and director Susannah Waters were commissioned by Glyndebourne and Scottish Opera to write Imago. Working very closely with colleagues from East Sussex County Council, Brighton & Hove Council and the Birley Centre we planned a programme of auditions led by Susannah Waters, Lee Reynolds and Christopher Tudor. In Autumn 2012 we ran taster workshops and auditioned over 200 people for places in the chorus and orchestra. Music rehearsals began for the Imago chorus in November 2012, and we started 2013 with an Orchestra Academy and a full production schedule for the professional production team, soloists, chorus and orchestra. Evenings and weekends have been given up to this project, with a huge amount of support from families, carers and schools enabling all the participants to develop skills and be part of this life-changing experience. Lucy Lowe, Head of Education Imago - Synopsis ACT 1 Elizabeth is bed-bound in the geriatric ward of In Xanadu, Lisette and Annie watch Gulliver a care home. Her fellow patients lie around her, perform with The Headshots. Annie begins to each in their own world. But rather than being probe Lisette’s host identity and suggests that lost in the past, Elizabeth’s imagination is still they meet up in the real world. Lisette realises active and exploratory. that the host behind Annie is predatory, so she loses herself in the crowd. On stage Gulliver Andy, the hospital’s occupational therapist, suddenly comes to a complete standstill. We wheels in his latest therapeutic tool – Imago. hear his host voices off stage. They take us into… With this system, Elizabeth can create an imago of herself, then launch it into a virtual world, … 15-year-old Rufus’s bedroom. He is scolding where it will simulate everything she still wants his younger brother Rory for using his dad’s to experience. Andy helps her to programme Imago system. Their mother, Stella, comes in the computer. He places the Imago glasses on to settle the argument. She thinks computer Elizabeth’s head, and the imago she has created games just make people unhappy. But their – Lisette – appears, a stunning younger version dad, Andy, intervenes. He explains the system of herself. Andy leaves Elizabeth alone with the is meant for his elderly patients to enhance the system to experiment with it. With Lisette’s help, end of their lives. Finally Rufus is left alone to Elizabeth modifi es her imago until it is ready to play with Imago, and we go back into Imago and be launched. Xanadu – only this time Gulliver is not such a brash adolescent, and his music is acoustic and Lisette disappears, only to reappear in the virtual emo. Suddenly he begins to lose power. Lisette world. She fi nds herself on a teleport platform is concerned for him. Zak tells her she needs to where other imagos are departing for their take Gulliver to the Recharge Café. virtual destinations. A Moderator explains the cardinal rule of Imago – don’t ever reveal your It’s a Mediterranean quayside café, almost identity. Lisette makes friends with another girl deserted. As Gulliver recovers strength, it begins on the platform, Annie. Together, they meet to feel like a date. They are just about to enjoy Gulliver – an arrogant young man. He’s heading their fi rst kiss when Elizabeth intervenes. Lisette for the Big Gig in Xanadu tonight where he’s is being too forward. Lisette explains to Gulliver fronting The Headshots, a virtual pop band. that her host is holding her back. When her Zak, the bass-player, invites Lisette to come and younger self rebels against her, Elizabeth pulls watch. The band fl ies out. Lisette isn’t keen, but the plug. Annie persuades her to go along. Back in the care home, the patients are having their machines removed for the night. But Elizabeth doesn’t want hers taken away. Her protest is gradually taken up by the other patients. One by one, the beautiful imagos the elders have created disappear as their machines are switched off . Imago - Synopsis Gulliver and Lisette duly celebrate their ACT 2 marriage, but they put their own twist on it. It is an a capella wedding, presided over by an The Last Chance Casino. Lisette is playing extremely hip vicar. roulette, gambling on the red.
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