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CLoSer: The Entertainments at the Village Underground

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Time 20:30
Date 21/10/14
Price £15
  • Produced by City of London Sinfonia
  • Price Adult: £15, Concessions: £7.50, CLS FIVER (16-25 year olds): £5, CLS-FIVER Early Bird tickets: £1
  • Get ready for the music impressions of the Bard.
  • Bring along ears wide open.
  • Surf to book tickets
  • See you at Village Underground

Korngold's Incidental music for Much Ado About Nothing 
and Shostakovich's Hamlet performed by the City of London Sinfonia.

City of London Sinfonia

Michael Collins conductor

Max Webster director 

Richard Hope & Emma Pallant actors 

Shostakovich's outrageous re-working of Shakespeare's Hamlet was first performed against the backdrop of Stalin's cultural pogroms of the early 1930s, turning the play into a visceral and biting political satire and borrowing freely from cabaret and film music. Korngold's music for Much Ado About Nothing from 1920 reveals why he became one of the pioneers of the Hollywood film music industry later in his life. This event will also feature snippets of Shakespeare's original plays brought to life alongside the music by actors Richard Hope and Emma Pallant.

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