Monkey: Journey to the West
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No Prima Donna...integral part of the drama." The musical arrangements, plot and style of vocal delivery make Prima Donna a much more complex and traditional work than Monkey Journey To The West, the opera by Damon Albarn which was a big hitter at the last... In this article: Rufus Wainwright, Orchestration, Prima Donna, Opera North, Suicide, Norma Desmond, Bastille Day, and Monkey Journey To The West |
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BBC News | October 09, 2008
Wainwright creates festival opera
...Wainwright's Prima Donna for its 2009 event. It follows the festival's much-lauded premiere in 2007 of Monkey: Journey to the West, which saw another popular music act turn to opera - Gorillaz. With a Paris setting Prima Donna will be about...
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Monkey: Journey to the West is a stage adaptation of the 16th Century Chinese novel Journey to the West, by Wu Cheng'en. It was conceived and created by the Chinese actor and director Chen Shi-zheng, together with the British musician Damon Albarn and British artist Jamie Hewlett. However, the original idea came from Jean-Luc Choplin, head of the Chatelet Theatre in Paris .
The production received its world premiere as the opening show of the inaugural Manchester International Festival, on June 28, 2007 at the Palace Theatre, Manchester, where it ran until July 7. It was subsequently staged at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris between September 26 and October 13 2007. The production received its U.S. premiere at the Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, SC in May 2008. A further run was planned for the Berlin Staatsoper in July 2008, but instead took place at the London Royal Opera House.
Billed as a "circus opera", the show is Hewlett and Albarn's first major collaboration since Gorillaz. Albarn composed the musical score while Hewlett designed the visual concept, set and costumes. The adaptation for stage has been written by Shi-zheng, who also directs the production. Dramaturgy is by David Greenspan. The show features Chinese singers and 70 Chinese acrobats and martial artists. The orchestra put together for the production includes members of the UK Chinese Music Ensemble (led by Cheng Yu), Demon Strings and Sense of Sound.
Hewlett and Albarn included characters from Monkey: Journey to the West in an animation sequence titled "Journey to the East." The BBC used the sequence to introduce coverage of the 2008 Summer Olympics, held in Beijing.
- Name:
- Monkey: Journey to the West
- Music By:
- Damon Albarn
- Productions:
- 2007 co-produced by Théâtre du Châtelet, Manchester International Festival, Berlin Staastoper.
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