Eight Songs for a Mad King

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Event Eight Songs for a Mad King
Venue RNZB Dance Centre, Wellington, New Zealand
First Date 2 March 2020
Last Date 7 March 2020
Dates Estimated No
Status Professional
World Premiere No
Description This new production by New Zealand Opera sees a king in distress, transformed into a modern corporate everyman as a disarming device to explore our complicated relationship
with mental health and power. As an added twist, you will experience the action up close again, with only a
window separating you and the King. Maxwell Davies’s extraordinary score derives from the songs King George III played on his mechanical organ and attempted to train his bullfinches to sing. The music requires a baritone of extraordinary technique to sing over five octaves, with New Zealander Robert Tuck
Description Source Brochure
Primary Genre Music Theatre
Secondary Genre Opera
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Peter Maxwell Davies Composer
Hamish McKeich Conductor
Thomas de Mallet Burgess Director
Event Status Completed
Data Set AusStage
Event Identifier 213180