03.10.11
OPERA North Projects has monograph-packaged all four seasons, Vivaldi-style, and last weekend it was Autumn’s give in to get the poetry, prose and music treatment from a clever and enthusiastic apartment sextet.
The scene couldn’t have been more theatrically set.
Already traumatised by Spanish sculptor Jaume Plensa’s magical lit figures, chiming bear up columns of poetry, alabaster heads and resonant gongs, we made our way along a balmy shady route to Bretton Park Chapel, our path unmistakeable with candle lanterns.
The orange flames of a bonfire were projected on the chapel fence, and leaves had been scattered artistically in the entrance hall.
The chapel was candle-lit, the only moving light being supplied to the music stands.
The Project’s tuneful director, cellist and vocal soloist Matthew Sharpe was interlocutor and introduced a diversified programme of music, poetry and prose loosely based on autumn, a yet for changes.
The words and music magically combined to give us images of friendship and wine, elves and pumpkins, of years and lives sliding towards the darkness of winter.
Source: Huddersfield Examiner