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Strange Poetry was formed as a collaboration between Complicité and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. It explores Berlioz’ Symphonie Fantastique in an expressionistic conjuration of the Romantic era and philosophical world of the composer, using light, video and physical performance.
Dates
Los Angeles
Co-commissioned by the LA Philharmonic and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
People
Creative Team
- Conceived & directed by
Simon McBurney - Artistic & musical collaborator
Gerard McBurney - Conductor
Esa Pekka Salonen - Sound
Christopher Shutt & Gareth Fry - Lighting
Paul Anderson - Projection
Francis Laporte - Costume
Christina Cunningham - Research
Hannah Whitley
Cast
- Antonio Gil Martinez
- John Flax
- Tamzin Griffin
- Sophie Grimmer
- Richard Katz
- Simon McBurney
- Yasuyo Mochizuki
- Robert Tannion
- Tom Ward
- The Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
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