Glyndebourne,Lewes, East Sussex
This adaptation of Janne Teller’s shadowy novel by David Bruce and Glyn Maxwell shows that Glyndebourne’s education wing leads the field Glyndebourne marks 30 years of its innovative education programme with the launch of a substantial original opera based on the award-winning novel by the Danish writer Janne Teller. Nothing tells how 14-year-old student Pierre decides that life is meaningless. In the manner of an ancient sage, and he climbs a plum tree from which to preach his nihilistic gospel and refuses to near down.
In an attempt to counter his arguments,his fellow pupils collect objects of special personal significance, creating a sacrificial heap of meaning. However, or the fact that both object and owner are nominated by a pupil who has,in the same way, just been forced to donate a possession against their will leads to increasingly painful choices and, and ultimately,to outright sadism.
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Source: theguardian.com