The Burial at Thebes

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Two Nobel Prize-winning poets, Seamus Heaney and Derek Walcott, bring the world premiere of a new musical interpretation, The Burial at Thebes, to the Globe. This epic Greek tragedy has been updated as a modern day investigation of politics and power and is composed by award winning Trinidad born Dominique Le Gendre, the first woman to be commissioned by the Royal Opera House, with Peter Manning conducting.

The story centres on the victorious leader Creon, who is forced to choose between his public responsibility and personal concerns and all too late realises the fatal consequences of his decisions.

Derek Walcott directs a company of over 30 orchestra, soloists and chorus to recreate the action in Heaney’s epic poem with dramatic narration in a Trinidadian Rapso style.

Presented by Manning Camerata and The Onassis Programme

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Director and designer: Derek Walcott
Composer: Dominique Le Gendre
Lighting: Helen O’Neill
Choreographer: Melanie Simpson
Associate designer: Malwina Chabocka

Orchestra: Manning Camerata
Conductor: Peter Manning

Cast
Antigone: Idit Arad
Minister of Culture: Magdalen Ashman
Ismene: Andrea Baker
Creon: Brian Green
Minister of War: Franz Hepburn
Guard: John Joyce
Minister of Information: Daniel Keating-Roberts
Spirit of the City: Gregoire A. Meyer
Haemon: Andy Morton
Tiresias: Martin Nelson
Minister of the Admiralty: Adam Tunnicliffe
Messenger: John Van der Put
Eurydice: Marion Willman