If the purpose of a festival is to bring diverging art forms under a single umbrella, then this event fulfils the brief to wonderful effect.
A live performance of Rossini’s homage to Joan Of Arc will be played out in the same space as guest artistic director Anish Kapoor’s installation Dismemberment of Jeanne d’Arc – his own, new response to the icon of female martyrdom.
Thomas Kemp will direct Chamber Domaine in a live performance of Salvatore Sciarrino’s orchestration of Rossini’s late cantata – arguably his most ambitious in the form.
It retells the story of the Maid of Orleans – the visions that drove an illiterate peasant girl to deliver her country from subjugation.
Rossini pulled out all the stops in a bid to evoke the mythic quality of his subject.
Kemp will direct rising Swedish mezzo-soprano star Anna Grevelius. A graduate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Laura Sarti, Grevelius has won acclaim for the purity of her bell-like timbre and a raft of roles in the likes of Cosi Fan Tutte, and recently as Rosina in the English National Opera’s production of The Barber Of Seville.
Sponsored by University of Sussex Starts 4pm and 7pm. Tickets £12.50.
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