Viriditas Opera


Viriditas Mary E. Larew Productions Ordo Virtutum The Soldier's Tale Antigone Herod and the Slaughter of the Innocents The Tsar Has His Photograph Taken Image of Saint Nicholas Press Recordings Contact	York Playbook Project The Emperor's New Clothes, by Hilary Nicholls as part of the York Spring Festival of New Music The York Playbook is an ongoing collection of new music-dramas by York composers. This May, Viriditas presents a scene from Hilary Nicholl's new satirical opera, The Emperor's New Clothes. The piece is based on the Hans Christian Andersen story in which two fraudsters pose as tailors who promise to make the King a suit of beautiful clothes that fools cannot see. Sunday, 10 May, 4.45 PM at the University of York Music Department, Heslington, York Wednesday, 13 May, 7.30 PM at the University of York Music Department, Heslington, York Saturday, 16 May, 1.30 PM at the National Centre for Early Music, Walmgate, York Admission is free. The performance will last approximately ten minutes. Cast Emperor: Suzanne Fatta Tailor One: Laura Kishimoto Tailor Two: Hilary Nicholls Chorus: Marja Liisa Kay, Mary E. Larew, Ehren Mierau Quem Queritis: Medieval Easter Dramas The earliest form of liturgical drama was this brief Easter dialogue: Interrogatio. Quem queritis in sepulchro, o Christicolae? Responsio. Jesum Nazarenum crucifixum, o caelicolae. Angeli. Non est hic; surrexit, sicut praedixerat. Ite, nuntiate quia surrexit de sepulchro Question [by the Angels]: Whom do ye seek in the sepulcher, O followers of Christ? Answer [by the Marys]: Jesus of Nazareth, the Crucified, O heavenly ones. The Angels: He is not here; he is risen, just as he foretold. Go, announce that he is risen from the sepulchre. —John Gassner, editor, Medieval and Tudor Drama. This episode, repeated and elaborated upon throughout all of medieval Europe, grew to include almost infinite variation. By the end of the Middle Ages, a number of episodes from Holy Week and Easter had been turned into dramas. This production presents a selection of these dramas from throughout Europe between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries. DETAILS Tuesday, 28 April 2009 7.30 pm St. Olave's Church, Marygate, York Suggested Donation: £5 Cast: Graham Bier Robin Bier Mark Burghagen Rosemary Carlton-Willis Louisa Dobson Suzanne Fatta Francesca Geach Jon Hughes Laura Kishimoto Mary E. Larew Jack Mackenzie Ehren Mierau John Potter Dramas: St. Luke Passion Heu! Me Misera Planctus Mariae The Hanging of Judas Depositio Crucis Visitatio Sepulchri Versus de Pelegrino Elevatio Crucis Harrowing of Hell

York Playbook Project
The Emperor's New Clothes, by Hilary Nicholls
as part of the York Spring Festival of New Music

The York Playbook is an ongoing collection of new music-dramas by York composers. This May, Viriditas presents a scene from Hilary Nicholl's new satirical opera, The Emperor's New Clothes. The piece is based on the Hans Christian Andersen story in which two fraudsters pose as tailors who promise to make the King a suit of beautiful clothes that fools cannot see.

Sunday, 10 May, 4.45 PM
at the University of York Music Department, Heslington, York
Wednesday, 13 May, 7.30 PM
at the University of York Music Department, Heslington, York
Saturday, 16 May, 1.30 PM
at the National Centre for Early Music, Walmgate, York

Admission is free. The performance will last approximately ten minutes.

Cast
Emperor: Suzanne Fatta
Tailor One: Laura Kishimoto
Tailor Two: Hilary Nicholls
Chorus: Marja Liisa Kay, Mary E. Larew, Ehren Mierau

Quem Queritis: Medieval Easter Dramas

The earliest form of liturgical drama was this brief Easter dialogue:

Interrogatio. Quem queritis in sepulchro, o Christicolae?
Responsio. Jesum Nazarenum crucifixum, o caelicolae.
Angeli. Non est hic; surrexit, sicut praedixerat. Ite, nuntiate quia surrexit de sepulchro

Question [by the Angels]: Whom do ye seek in the sepulcher, O followers of Christ?
Answer [by the Marys]: Jesus of Nazareth, the Crucified, O heavenly ones.
The Angels: He is not here; he is risen, just as he foretold. Go, announce that he is risen from the sepulchre.

—John Gassner, editor, Medieval and Tudor Drama.

This episode, repeated and elaborated upon throughout all of medieval Europe, grew to include almost infinite variation. By the end of the Middle Ages, a number of episodes from Holy Week and Easter had been turned into dramas. This production presents a selection of these dramas from throughout Europe between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries.

DETAILS
Tuesday, 28 April 2009
7.30 pm
St. Olave's Church, Marygate, York

Suggested Donation: £5

Cast:
Graham Bier
Robin Bier
Mark Burghagen
Rosemary Carlton-Willis
Louisa Dobson
Suzanne Fatta
Francesca Geach
Jon Hughes
Laura Kishimoto
Mary E. Larew
Jack Mackenzie
Ehren Mierau
John Potter

Dramas:
St. Luke Passion
Heu! Me Misera
Planctus Mariae
The Hanging of Judas
Depositio Crucis
Visitatio Sepulchri
Versus de Pelegrino
Elevatio Crucis
Harrowing of Hell