composer
Elgar
Concepts and Direction
Lucy Carter
Conductor
Simone Young
Singers
Gwyn Hughes, Patricia Bardon and Matthew Rose
Orchestra
English National Opera
Choir
English National Opera Chorus and The BBC singers
Lighting Direction and Design
Lucy Carter
Creative Lighting Programmer
Jenny Kershaw
Stage Manager
Rosie Davis
Lighting Prodution Management
Martin Chisnall
Lighting supplier and technical support
PRG
Photographer
Richard Davies
Photographer and film maker
Luke Unsworth
This Light Installation work was created for a Semi Staged Production of Elgars The Dream of Gerontius. It is a vivid, moving Choral work, which follows an everyman character, Gerontius as he leaves this world and ascends into heaven , encountering angels , demons, souls and eventually god on his journey.
Lucy created the staging concepts and designs for this performance. Drawing upon religious symbolism and the light qualities used in classical religious imagery. The lighting worlds and textures, traced the text and musical energies to provide a visual, visceral and immersive environment for the story to evolve in. The abstract light energies play above and over the orchestra and singers in a layer of abstract, otherworldly and ethereal emotions, to heighten the whole experience.
