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EXIL
COMPOSED BY GIYA KANCELI
SYDNEY CHAMBER OPERA/CARRIAGEWORKS
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE: DECEMBER 2013
★★★★ "Spare, taut poetry, the refined spirituality of Kancheli’s music and the stark visual setting, gave the performance an undeniable power and poignancy." DAVID LARKIN - BACHTRACK
Internationally acclaimed soprano Jane Sheldon joins Sydney Chamber Opera to perform a transcendentally haunting monodrama, Exil. Contemporary Georgian composer Giya Kancheli originally conceived his 1994 song cycle as a concert work, not for the stage. A setting of Biblical Psalms alongside post-Holocaust poetry by Paul Celan and Hans Sahl, it is an abstract twentieth-century drama of the soul in the face of unspeakable horror.
conductor: Jack Symonds
director: Adena Jacobs
set & costume: Eugyeene Teh
lighting: Katie Sfetkidis
production & stage manager: Benjamin Brockman
performed by Jane Sheldon
★★★★½ "I can't imagine Kanceli's score being dealt with more honourably" BRAD SYKES - AJN
"Sydney Chamber Opera's Exil is bleak but beautiful...Jacobs' direction brings a deft shape and pace to this difficult work" HARRIET CUNNINGHAM - SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
Photography by Pia Johnson
Trailer by Marty Jamieson