Time Zone Theatre

A double-bill of bold, new and experimental works which combine art forms and push the boundaries of classical music.

Even you, lights, cannot hear me is a new operatic spectacle composed by Simone Spagnolo, based on a monologue by Anton Chekov's The Seagull.

Exploring a futuristic and elegiac vision of the end of time, Even you, lights, cannot hear me is a new operatic spectacle based on a monologue from Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull. Two singers, depicted as two beings embodied into one entity, wonder a surreal, yet exquisite cosmos, in which nothingness and wholeness coexist, timelessly.

Composed by award-winning artist Simone Spagnolo, this work merges elements of operatic singing, chamber music and performance art, whilst challenging the contemporary notion of opera. Try to imagine a spaceless world, where a two-headed creature sings, in perpetual motion, and the sound of a piano echoes through all its harmonics. An operatic experience, an inextricable blend of music and theatre: a glimpse of life after the world’s end.

Scored for two opera singers doubling on piano and pebbles, these unique performances star mezzo- soprano Kate Symonds-Joy and baritone James Schouten.

Sarah Toth's pastiche chamber opera Nero Monologues uses a range of sung, spoken and physical expression to journey the inner workings of the first-century emperor of Rome right before he dies. Baroque, 20th and 21st century repertoire is layered with contemporary poetry to structure this theatrical, operatic piece for singer, dancer, piano and string quartet.

Part of Time Zone Theatre's Opera In The City Festival