 Event |
Riders to the Sea
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| Venue |
State Opera Studio, Netley, SA |
| Umbrella Event |
State Opera of South Australia 1998 Season |
| First Date |
1998 |
| Opening Date |
1998 |
| Last Date |
1998 |
| Dates Estimated |
Yes |
| Status |
Professional |
| World Premiere |
No |
| Description |
Maurya has lost her husband, father-in-law, and five sons to the sea. As the opera begins Nora and Cathleen receive word that a body that may be their brother Michael has washed up on shore in Donegal, far to the north. Bartley is planning to sail to Connemara to sell a horse, and ignores Maurya's pleas to stay. As he leaves, he leaves gracefully. Maurya predicts that by nightfall she will have no living sons, and her daughters chide her for sending Bartley off with an ill word. Maurya goes after Bartley to bless his voyage, and Nora and Cathleen receive clothing from the drowned corpse that |
| Description Source |
Website |
| Primary Genre |
Music Theatre
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| Secondary Genre |
Opera
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| Subjects |
Conflict
Death
Oceans
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| Organisations |
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| Contributors |
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| Text Nationality |
Ireland
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| Production Nationality |
England
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| Further Information |
Riders to the Sea is a short one-act opera by Ralph Vaughan Williams, based on the eponymous play by the Irish author John Millington Synge. The composer completed the score in 1927, but it was not premiered until 1 December 1937, at the Royal College of Music, London. The opera did not enter the repertoire of Sadler's Wells until 1953.
Vaughan Williams set Synge's text essentially intact, with
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| Event Status |
Completed
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| Data Source |
| Source |
Description |
| Web |
The State Opera of South Australia Web Archive |
| Web |
Wikipedia |
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| Event Identifier |
99987 |
| Dataset |
AusStage |
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