Based upon the play by Sarah Kane, Philip Venables' 4.48 Psychosis has received wide critical acclaim, including a five-star review in The Independent.
Philip Venables enjoys tremendous success with new opera '4.48 Psychosis'
10 June 2016The opera also revieved four-star write-ups from The Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, The Telegraph, The Stage and website The Arts Desk.
Produced at the Royal Opera House in May, the performance featured the "superb" London-based new music ensemble Chroma alongside six female vocalists, with soprano Gweneth-Ann Rand taking a lead role.
The Telegraph's Steph Power writes that the work "succeeds through simple honesty" in tackling Kane's text, notorious for its themes of suicide, depression and psychological anguish.
In her review for the FT, Hannah Nepil writes that Venables "manages to enhance Kane’s groundbreaking format with his own unbuttoned imagination," while his "score lurches between chattering polyphony, sounds of sawing wood, and post-romantic arias, spiced up with eerie violin shrieks."
Tim Ashley, writing in The Guardian, concludes that the production "confirms Philip Venables’s reputation as one of the finest of the younger generation of composers working today."
Read the full reviews here:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/may/25/448-psychosis-review-sarah-kane-philip-venables-opera
http://www.theartsdesk.com/opera/448-psychosis-royal-opera-lyric-hammersmith
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/42c64b3e-2259-11e6-9d4d-c11776a5124d.html#axzz49fIADoAD
Photo credit: ROH / Stephen Cummiskey
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