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The Silver Tassie

BBC SO Total Immersion: In Remembrance World War I

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A rare opportunity to see Mark-Anthony Turnage’s powerful, anti-war opera, performed here by an outstanding British cast.

Sean O’Casey’s provocative 1928 play The Silver Tassie pries open the wound of the First World War and peers unblinkingly into its horrifying depths. The futility of war and its painful human cost is conveyed with even greater intensity in Mark-Anthony Turnage’s beautifully crafted operatic adaptation, which explores what happens when young, football-mad Irishman Harry comes back from the war in a wheelchair.

An all-star British cast has been assembled for this first UK revival of the opera since its 2000 premiere, including Brindley Sherratt, Susan Bickley, Sally Matthews and Louise Alder, with rising young baritone Ashley Riches as Harry. The performance will be conducted by Ryan Wigglesworth.

 

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Part of For the Fallen: Marking the First World War Centenary

Programme

  • Mark-Anthony Turnage   The Silver Tassie

Sung in English, with surtitles

Performers

  • BBC Symphony Orchestra  
  • Ryan Wigglesworth   conductor
  • Ashley Riches   Harry
  • Sally Matthews   Susie
  • Brindley Sherratt   Croucher
  • Claire Booth   Mrs Foran
  • Marcus Farnsworth   Teddy
  • Alexander Robin Baker   Barney
  • Louise Alder   Jessie
  • Susan Bickley   Mrs Heegan
  • Mark Le Brocq   Sylvester
  • Anthony Gregory   Dr Maxwell/Staff Officer
  • Benedict Nelson   Corporal
  • BBC Singers  
  • Finchley Children’s Music Group  

Free performance 5pm and 6.10pm

David Lang Memorial Ground

The culmination of a BBC Symphony Orchestra Learning project. 

 

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Barbican Hall

Location
The Barbican Hall is located within the main Barbican building. Head to Level G and follow the signs to find your seating level. 

Address
Barbican Centre
Silk Street, London
EC2Y 8DS

Public transport
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