Into the Little Hill

UK Premier of this opera by George Benjamin, presented by the Liverpool Culture Company.

A lyric tale in two parts.

The Pied Piper story gets a political updating as a minister tries to reassure a restless voting public by commissioning an extermination of rats.

It’s a tale with many dark and sinister implications, as the rats are spirited away by the ghostly stranger hired by The minister.Nobody claims responsibility for their vanishing, but when the latter refuses to pay up; the stranger abducts his baby and takes him into ‘the little hill’.

“... a marvel of economical theatricality...” Peter van der Lint: Trouw (Netherlands)

Commissioned by:
The Festival d’Automne à Paris in association with the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, the Opéra National de Paris, the Ensemble Modern together with the Forberg Schneider Foundation.

Co-production:
Festival d’Automne à Paris, Opéra national de Paris, T&M, Oper Frankfurt, Lincoln Center Festival, Wienerfestwochen, Holland Festival, Ensemble Modern, Liverpool Culture Comapny.

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