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From June 10 to 17, the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Argentina, will stage the world premiere of Requiem by Argentine composer Oscar Strasnoy to a libretto by Canadian Stage Artistic Director Matthew Jocelyn. Locelyn will also direct. The libretto is based on William Faulkner’s play/novel hybrid Requiem for a Nun (1950).
This is Jocelyn’s second collaboration with Strasnoy after Le Bal (2010) with a libretto based on a short novel by Irène Némirovsky that premiered at the Hamburg Staatsoper.
Robert Everett-Green writes: “Jocelyn's life on the lyric stage began in earnest 20 years ago, when he landed a gig assisting English director Jonathan Miller in a production of La Bohème at L'Opéra Bastille. That connection soon led to a three-year position at the Paris Opera, where Jocelyn taught theatre to singers in the company's international opera studio. He started a similar program at Opéra National du Rhin, and ran that for 10 years.
“His next libretto project will compress and reshuffle but not add a syllable to the original: Shakespeare's Hamlet, which the Glyndebourne Festival commissioned Jocelyn and Australian composer Dean Brett to turn into an opera for the 2017 season. It's the first commission from the venerable British house in a decade.”
Requiem features Temple Drake: Jennifer Holloway as Temple Drake, Siphiwe McKenzie as Nancy Mannigoe, James Johnson as Gavin Stevens, Damián Ramírez as The Jailor and Canadian Brett Polegato as Geowan Stevens.
For tickets visit www.teatrocolon.org.ar.
Information from Robert Everett-Green for www.theglobeandmail.com and listing in www.teatrocolon.org.ar.
Photo: Matthew Jocelyn. ©2010 George Pimentel.
2014-06-13
Bueno Aires: Canadian Stage Artistic Director Matthew Jocelyn directs a new opera in Buenos Aires