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Two new operas for single voice

Operas by Gina Fergione and Susannah Self

Part of the Stoke Newington Contemporary Music Festival 2022

Add to my Calendar 08-05-2022 19:30 08-05-2022 21:30 36 Two new operas for single voice Two new works by composer/performers take the operatic genre to new places with just a solo voice, instruments and soundscape.  In 'Analysis', Susannah Self explores turning points in her own life, through the prism of a ten-year period of Jungian analysis. The result is by turns dark, witty, true and revealing. Gina Fergione and Lynda Morgan's 'Emily Hobhouse: "that bloody woman"', is based on the life of campaigner and activist Emily Hobhouse, who defied the government at the time to raise awareness of conditions in British concentration camps during the Boehr War. The Old Church, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

The Old Church
Clissold Park
Stoke Newington
London
N16 0JR
England

Programme

Gina Fergione – Emily Hobhouse: 'that bloody woman'
Susannah Self – Analysis, an installation opera

Performers

Gina Fergione – Voice
Susannah Self – Voice

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Programme Note

Two new works by composer/performers take the operatic genre to new places with just a solo voice, instruments and soundscape. 

In 'Analysis', Susannah Self explores turning points in her own life, through the prism of a ten-year period of Jungian analysis. The result is by turns dark, witty, true and revealing.

Gina Fergione and Lynda Morgan's 'Emily Hobhouse: "that bloody woman"', is based on the life of campaigner and activist Emily Hobhouse, who defied the government at the time to raise awareness of conditions in British concentration camps during the Boehr War.

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