• Julia Bullock singing and Bobbi Jene Smith dancing in the background
  • Julia Bullock singing and Bobbi Jene Smith dancing in the background
  • Julia Bullock singing and Bobbi Jene Smith dancing in the background
  • Julia Bullock singing and Bobbi Jene Smith dancing in the background
  • Julia Bullock singing and Bobbi Jene Smith dancing in the background

Julia Bullock & AMOC Harawi

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Introduction

The American Modern Opera Company (AMOC) is thrilled to present a new staging of Harawi, Olivier Messiaen’s deeply af-fecting, hour-long song cycle for soprano and piano.

In addition to Julia Bullock and Conor Hanick's performance of this sweeping work, Messiaen’s musical explorations of love and death will take on a newly physicalised and theatrical dimension through the choreographic work of Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber direction by Zack Winokur and with lighting design by John Torres. Moving from duet to quartet, this production breaks open Messiaen’s cycle and interro-gates the questions inherent in the piece’s appropriative exoticism.

Soprano
Julia Bullock

Piano
Conor Hanick

Director
Zack Winokur

Choreography & Dancers
Bobbi Jene Smith, Or Schraiber

A Production from De Singel, Aix-en-Provence Festival and American Modern Opera Company (AMOC-Cambridge).

Creative Team

Lighting Designer John Torres Sound designer Mark Grey Costume Designer Carlos Soto

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Programme

  • Messiaen, Harawi, chant d'amour et de mort

Scheduled Performances

  • May 2023
    Europe

    Antwerp, DeSingel | Leverkusen, StARTfestival | Hamburg, Elbphilharmonie

  • Jul 2022
    France

    Aix en Provence, Le Pavillon Noir [FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL D'ART LYRIQUE D'AIX-EN-PROVENCE]