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Dateline: 19th April, 2007
English National Opera's 2007 - 2008 season, which runs from September '07 to July '08, includes two collaborations with the Young Vic. "For many years the concept of a space for contemporary work has been only a dream for ENO," the coompany says." In 2008 a new collaboration with the Young Vic gives ENO access to the ideal space, that will enable contemporary work to flourish with an even wider range of artists; ENO/Young Vic present UK premiere of Lost Highway and a new production of Punch and Judy." Lost Highway is by one of Europe’s leading young avant-garde composers, Austrian Olga Neuwirth. The libretto is by Nobel Prize winning playwright and novelist Elfriede Jelinek with Olga Neuwirth, adapted from the 1997 cult film created by David Lynch and Barry Gifford. In the words of David Lynch , Lost Highway is ‘a meditation on the mysterious nature of identity’. His psychological thriller is a surreal masterpiece, in which the characters exist in a crisis of parallel identities where time is out of control. It will be directed by Diane Paulus who makes her UK directing debut. Her innovative theatre work includes creating and directing The Donkey Show, a disco adaptation of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which ran for six years off-Broadway with subsequent touring dates including London, and was a big hit at the 2000 Edinburgh Fringe. She directed Best of Both Worlds, a gospel/r&b adaptation of A Winter’s Tale and The Karaoke Show, which set A Comedy of Errors in a karaoke bar, as well as award-winning productions of Running Man (a music theatre piece set to jazz and poetry). She has directed two of Mozart’s operas, Britten’s The Turn of the Screw and all three Monteverdi operas – in collaboration with conductor Jane Glover – at Chicago Lyric Opera, where she will return to direct a further Mozart opera, Don Giovanni, and the world premiere of Tod Machover’s Death and the Powers. The second piece to be performed in ENO/Young Vic’s season is also challenging. Edward Gardner conducts Harrison Birtwistle’s one-act Punch and Judy (libretto by Stephen Pruslin) in a new production by young director Daniel Kramer in his opera debut. Punch and Judy was premiered in 1968 at the Aldeburgh Festival in a production that visited the Edinburgh Festival and Sadler’s Wells the same year and was staged in a new production in London by Opera Factory in 1982. Described in Kobbé as ‘a tragical comedy, or a comical tragedy’ Punch and Judy is the second of Birtwistle’s operas to be produced by ENO, which staged the world premiere of The Mask of Orpheus in 1986. Daniel Kramer’s acclaimed production of Woyzek transferred recently from London’s Gate Theatre to St Ann’s Warehouse, New York and for this and Hair, also at the Gate, he was nominated for the Evening Standard Outstanding Newcomer Award. He is currently reviving the first UK production of Angels in America, Parts 1 & 2, which opens at the Citizens Theatre at the end of April 2007 and will transfer to the Lyric Hammersmith in late June. The full season is:
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