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CRASH

A new music theatre work based on the novel by J.G.Ballard for singers and orchestra.

Directed by Nicholas Broardhurst
Designed by The Brothers Quay

Ever slowed down as you pass a car crash?

Vaughn a nightmare angel of the motorway gets his erotic kicks from car crashes in Ballard's brilliant and hallucinatory story.

Tuned in to the police radio, his guide to the latest crash-scene, each encounter becomes more macabre than the last.

Directed by Nicholas Broadhurst, designed by the Brothers Quay, LCO's music-theatre version of Crash brings Ballard's novel of fantasy, torn flesh and twisted metal to life.

Crash explodes the union of blood, semen and engine coolant with Elizabeth Taylor.


 CRASH
 

HOMAGE A KLAUS NOMI – NOMI/NEUWIRTH

A multi media event featuring the music and the life of the German rock singer Klaus Nomi written and conceived by Olga Neuwirth.

Directed by Nicholas Broadhurst
Featuring Counter Tenor Andrew Watts

  
 

LUCI MIE TRADITRICI – SCIARRINO

The UK premiere of this amazing work featuring an international cast accompanied by Austria’s leading contemporary ensemble Klangforum Wien.

  
 

BAEHLAMMS FEST – OLGA NEUWIRTH

The UK premiere of this surreal opera based on the wirtings of Leonora Carrington. Originally commissioned by the Vienna Festival in 1999 and with a libretto by nobel prize winner Elfriede Jelinek.