Dream Hunter

Music Nicola LeFanu
Libretto John Fuller

Cast
Charmian Bedford
Caryl Hughes
Brian Smith Walters
Jeremy Huw Williams

Music Director Odaline de la Martinez
Stage Director Carmen Jakobi
Designer Kimie Nakano
Lighting Designer Filippo de Capitani
Musicians Lontano


Set in Corsica in the late nineteenth century, the opera explores the ambiguity surrounding the mazzere – women gifted with the prescience of death. If they foresee death, do they also cause it? The men hunt by day, but the women hunt in their dreams.

Angela and Catarina are the daughters of Domenico, a widowed smallholder. Sampiero, son of the mayor, is betrothed to Angela, but it is her younger sister Catarina whom he really desires.

The opera turns on a collision of two worlds: the world of dreams, where our fantasy knows no bounds, and the ‘real’ world where our actions will be judged. As the story unfolds, imagination and reality become entwined.

The first half of the evening presents two chamber works:
Libby Larsen Trio in Four Movements
Annea Lockwood Monkey Trips

Presented by The Mornington Trust and Lontano Trust Ltd in co-production with Wilton's Music Hall.