Event listing: Bow Down | Village Underground | Wed 13 Jun 2012 at 20:30

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Village Underground54 Holywell Lane, London, Greater London, EC2A 3PQ, United Kingdom

Dates/times in London time zone

Festival: Spitalfields Music Summer Festival

Programme

Birtwistle, Sir Harrison (1934-2022)

Performers

The Opera Group
London Sinfonietta Academy Ensemble
Frederic Wake-Walker	Director
Anna Jones	Set Designer
Paul Wingfield	Director

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The Opera Group: Bow Down

Paul Kilbey, 13th June

Two sisters, a knight, a miller, and a blind harpist. Such is the cast of Tony Harrison and Harrison Birtwistle's Bow Down, their 1977 music-theatre piece currently being toured around the UK by The Opera Group. It's an elemental, mythic piece, but also a testament to the endless capacity for novelty that old, grim folk tales like this have.

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