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The UK premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s Song from the Uproar – the story of a woman who redefined the possible, performed by mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately, dancer Lucia Chocarro, the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Singers and musicians from the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra.

Isabelle Eberhardt (1877–1904) was an explorer, nomad, journalist, novelist, passionate romantic, Sufi, and one of the most unique and unusual women of her era. Missy Mazzoli’s chamber opera evokes her short, untrammelled life in words and music of uncompromising beauty and imagination.

Coming at the end of a day of Full Immersion in Mazzoli’s creative world, it’s an occasion in its own right: an overdue UK premiere of a uniquely resonant and haunting music-drama by one of the 21st century’s most original creative minds. Sofi Jeannin conducts the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Singers, mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately and musicians from the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra.

Please note that Song from the Uproar: The Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt depicts situations of a distressing nature and includes references to suicide.

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