| Britten Sinfonia | |
| Baldur Brönnimann | Direction |
| Ian Bostridge | Ténor |
| Netia Jones | Mise en scène |
Ian Bostridge stars in a gripping theatrical version of Schubert's Winterreise in which composer Hans Zender’s iconoclastic orchestral re-imagining of the original is staged by acclaimed opera director and video artist Netia Jones.
The Dark Mirror is a startling reflection on art and performance, love, death and the passage of time. In this production, Schubert’s song-cycle inhabits a boldly expressionist landscape; the ‘Winter’s Journey’ and its grief-stricken young lover are mirrored in a dynamic confrontation between past and present, maturity and naivety, early Romanticism and the irony of post-Weimar cabaret.
Ian Bostridge is one of Winterreise’s greatest living interpreters and this radical new production continues and deepens his life-long relationship with the work and our understanding of it. Netia Jones is renowned for her innovative multimedia productions including 2013’s ‘exceptional’ (Telegraph) Curlew River at St Giles’ Cripplegate and 2012’s Where the Wild Things Are in the Barbican Hall.
