THE HAPPY PRINCE (Ballett) von Christopher Gordon

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Christopher Gordon hat gerade bekannt gegeben, welches Projekt er gerade die letzten Wochen in Angriff genommen hat.

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Finally I can talk about the project that has kept me holed up in recent weeks: composing The Happy Prince, a full length ballet, choreographed by Graeme Murphy, for The Australian Ballet’s 2019 season.
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In 2018, TAB paid tribute to Murphy with a program of works selected from across his 50-year career simply called Murphy. For the 2019 season, he creates a new full-length ballet based on Oscar Wilde’s famous story The Happy Prince about a golden statue who is moved by the suffering he sees across the city. Befriending a swallow, lost on its way south for the winter, the Prince and the bird give the jewels and gold from the statue to the poor. Murphy will work with theatre director and designer Kim Carpenter to bring a modern twist to the classical tale. Carpenter has previously staged an acclaimed theatre production for children, which his company Theatre of Image premiered in 1993.

TAB Artistic Director David McAllister says that the production has been in development since 2015. Murphy is creating “gorgeous little vignettes” about the struggling characters that the Prince and the swallow help, including the Little Match-girl and the seamstress with the sick child, says McAllister.

“He has also built the relationship between the swallow and the Prince to give it more dance opportunities. So the sparrow has a fascination with a reed, Rita the Reed, who is a beautiful showgirl reed with a whole lot of reedettes, and the sparrow family are like vaudevillians who are flying south to Australia to avoid the winter. In the end, of course, the swallow dies and the Happy Prince gets melted down and they go to paradise – which in Graeme’s mind is actually 1950s Australia, so we’ve got this great thing where he rides in on a surfboard on a big wave and it’s all Bondi Beach circa 1950s, so lots of great Murphyisms!”

The Happy Prince has a specially commissioned score by Christopher Gordon who wrote the music for the films Ladies in Black (now in cinemas), Mao’s Last Dancer and Master and Commander. Having met Murphy during the filming of Mao’s Last Dancer, Gordon wrote the score for Murphy’s 2015 ballet Giselle and the Wraith Queen, created for the Universal Ballet, Korea.

“He did such a beautiful score for Giselle so we are really excited about this,” says McAllister. The Happy Prince premieres in Melbourne in March then comes to Sydney in May.
Quelle: https://www.limelightmagazine.com.au/news/the-australian-ballet-announces-its-2019-season/

 

 

[Sebastian Schwittay]

Schade, dass zu LADIES IN BLACK erstmal nichts kommen wird... Bei Gordons letztem Score für Beresford, MAO'S LAST DANCER, kam ja noch sehr zeitnah eine CD zum Kinostart, sogar von Sony Classical.