World Premier "Krishna"

Kam Sehajpal spoke with the Narrator  ROSS RAMGOBIN about the world premier of Krishna.

Ross - Krishna Interview--

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After a sell out of last years "Taj Mahal" the team are back again.

Krishna is written for a large chorus and a full orchestra which includes eight flutes. The dance-driven pantomime—told through a Sanskrit libretto with English narration—draws on the Bhagavad Gita, Bhagavata Purana, and other Hindu mystical poems to trace the life of Krishna in fifteen vignettes, following him from birth, through boyhood, adolescence, manhood, his union with the goddess Radha, and his ascension to paradise.

Tavener spent his life studying religions in search of a truth. At the end of his life, he found Krishna and wrote this mystic pantomime. He described the central love scene as “the most ecstatic piece of music I have ever written”.

Krishna is the cause of all causes; he is in every heart.

This rare offering inspired by the divine presence of Krishna mixes dance, ritualised tableaux and an ethereal sound world that includes eight flutes (four of them alto flutes) forming a halo around the God.

Experience the wonderful pastimes of Krishna on the operatic stage in a world first.

Performances

Thursday 4 June

Saturday 13 June

Sunday 21 June

Thursday 2 July 

All performances start at 17:00

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