World-premiere of opera Antigone

May 2008

A selection from Act I of the world-premiere of Antigone, an opera for singers, strings, Javanese gamelan and Greek masks. Antigone, Cara Curran; Ismene, Suzanne Fatta; director, Mary E. Larew for Viriditas Opera; libretto, Seamus Heaney's translation of Sophocles; composer, Jon Hughes; with Gamelan Sekar Petak and Newton's Tree String Ensemble. The National Centre for Early Music, York, May 2008.