{"id":3797,"date":"2017-09-20T17:55:02","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T16:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larkreviews.co.uk\/?p=3797"},"modified":"2017-09-20T17:55:02","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T16:55:02","slug":"eno-presents-the-world-premiere-of-nico-muhlys-marnie-conducted-by-eno-music-director-martyn-brabbins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=3797","title":{"rendered":"ENO presents the world premiere of Nico Muhly\u2019s\u00a0Marnie, conducted by ENO Music Director Martyn Brabbins"},"content":{"rendered":"
Opens Saturday 18 November at\u00a0<\/em>7.30pm at the London Coliseum (5 performances)<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

Following his 2011 premiere of\u00a0Two Boys<\/em>\u00a0at ENO, composer Nico Muhly returns to the company with this second world premiere, the psychological thriller\u00a0Marnie<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Based on Winston Graham\u2019s classic 1961 novel with a libretto by Nicholas Wright,\u00a0Marnie<\/em>\u00a0will bring together an extraordinary array of operatic talent: it marks conductor Martyn Brabbins\u2019 debut as Music Director at ENO and Tony Award-winning director Michael Mayer\u2019s UK operatic debut. Grammy Award-winning mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke will lead the cast in the title role, while Julian Crouch and 59 Productions return to ENO with their unique video designs.<\/p>\n

The novel, also famously adapted by Alfred Hitchcock in the 1964 film of the same name, tells the story of Marnie as she embezzles money from her employers before changing her identity and moving on. Finally caught by her boss Mark Rutland and blackmailed into marriage, she must confront the hidden trauma in her past.<\/p>\n

Nico Muhly is the youngest composer ever commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera, New York, a \u2018phenomenon\u2019 (Gramophone<\/em>) whose work spans chamber works, sacred music, film scores as well as opera. His previous premiere for ENO,\u00a0Two Boys<\/em>, was called \u2018serious and radiant\u2019 by the\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0and as \u2018one of the most celebrated and sought after classical composers of the last decade\u2019 (The Guardian<\/em>) this premiere will be a major highlight of the operatic calendar; it will go on to play at the Met for the 2019\/20 season.<\/p>\n

Muhly comments:<\/p>\n

\u2018I am particularly excited to present this premiere at ENO. Librettist Nicholas Wright and I have worked very closely\u00a0with director Michael Mayer and the excellent design team of 59 Productions and Julian Crouch to\u00a0create something particularly suited to ENO – a house committed to daring new productions. \u00a0I am looking forward to working with the ENO Chorus again, with whom I had a great deal of fun during\u00a0<\/em>Two Boys, and am so pleased<\/em>\u00a0to work with Martyn Brabbins in his first production as ENO Music Director.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

Director Michael Mayer has helmed many of Broadway\u2019s most impressive productions, winning the Tony Award for Best Director for\u00a0Spring Awakening<\/em>\u00a0in 2007 and garnering great praise for his 2014 production of\u00a0Hedwig and the Angry Inch<\/em>. Having directed the 2012 Las Vegas-set\u00a0Rigoletto<\/em>\u00a0for the Metropolitan Opera, New York, this marks his operatic debut on the London stage after directing the musical\u00a0Funny Girl\u00a0<\/em>here in 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Opens Saturday 18 November at\u00a07.30pm at the London Coliseum (5 performances) Following his 2011 premiere of\u00a0Two Boys\u00a0at ENO, composer Nico Muhly returns to the company with this second world premiere, the psychological thriller\u00a0Marnie. Based on Winston Graham\u2019s classic 1961 novel … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3799,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797\/revisions\/3799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}