IOpera: Michael Nyman’s ‘The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat’ Tickets
We are delighted to announce that our next production is a 40th Anniversary staging of Michael Nyman‘s operatic adaptation of Oliver Sacks‘ best-seller neurological case study THE MAN WHO MISTOOK HIS WIFE FOR A HAT (1986)
Closely following his story, the one-hour opera explores the mind of “Dr. P,” a professional opera singer and music teacher, for whom the world has been rendered visually incomprehensible as a result of a degenerative neurological disorder.
Running for just on an hour, the opera explores both common preconceptions about dementia-related illnesses and the extraordinary ways one afflicted man and his wife cope. Nyman’s lyrical score demonstrates all the accessible and appealing qualities that he later also exhibited in his music for Jane Campion’s The PIano (1993).
For this production we welcome back three of Australia’s most accomplished operatic performers: Elena Xanthoudakis, Christopher HIllier, and Robert Macfarlane, and a chamber orchestra (including members of the Invictus String Quartet).
Three performances only, all in the intimate surrounds of the Athenaeum II Theatre, 188 Collins St, Melbourne.
Friday 20 March, 7:30 pm
Saturday 21 March, 5:00 pm
Saturday 21 March, 7:00 pm
TICKETS: $69 – $49
Tickets are otherwise available through Ticketmaster: https://www.ticketmaster.com.au/michael-nyman-s-the-man-who-mistook-his-wife-for-a-hat-tickets/artist/4163359
