Text by Antonio Abati
Director: James Hurley
Musical Director: James HallidayDesigner: Rachel Szmukler
Lighting Designer: Ben Pickersgill
Solomon’s Knot
baroque collective presents the modern staged premiere of a ‘lost’
Italian opera, l’Ospedale, based on a libretto by Antonio Abati. Set to
music by an unknown seventeenth-century composer, this opera is a biting
satire on patients, doctors, and medical practice, providing a unique and
radical platform – or “voice” – to four characters, who exhibit various
psychological and social disorders.
A contemporary, immersive production, sewn into the heart of
Wilton’s Music Hall, brings this provocative work to life amidst the purgatorial
wasteland of a dilapidated modern hospital, where vulnerable patients await the
arrival of an enigmatic doctor who they hope will restore their sanity – but at
what cost?
The opera is performed in the original Italian, with English
captions.
Solomon's Knot & Wilton's Music Hall
This exciting new work will be Solomon's Knot's first fully staged
production. Over the past two years this rediscovered opera has been brought
back to life through a series of new transcriptions, translations and workshop
projects, which have helped construct the theatrical version to be premiered at
Wilton’s this Winter. Image by Ugo Carmeni,
ugocarmeni.com