With music by our composer Kate Whitley and poet Laura Attridge, Our Future In Your Hands was inspired by the seismic global youth movement against climate change, championed by Greta Thunberg.
This will be our first large-scale performance in over two years, bringing together our orchestra, choir and 3 opera soloists. It is an epic piece imagining the world recovering from climate change and being reborn again in the future – and an optimistic vision that we think we all need at the moment!
There are two choirs – one representing the voice of anger and protest, and one the voice of future optimism and change. The three soloists portray an astronaut, looking down to Earth from space and seeing the world as a whole for the first time, a man deciding whether or not to have a child, and a woman struggling to find water and survive in an apocalyptic future. Through their stories and the choir’s protest songs, the piece takes us on a journey from terror and destruction to the imagining of how the world could be if we survived and recovered.
We are hugely excited about bringing this beautiful piece into the world for the first time and really hope you can join us for the premiere!
Performed by:
The Multi-Story Orchestra
The Multi-Story Choir
Soloists
Soprano - Sarah-Jane Lewis
Alto - Kate Howden
Bass Baritone - Darren Jeffrey
Conductor - Christopher Stark
Our Future In Your Hands was commissioned by the Buxton International Festival, in collaboration with the Royal Over-Seas League.
This is a Genesis Kickstart Fund project, supported by the Genesis Foundation. We are grateful to the following funders who have made this event possible:
Arts Council England
Borletti-Buitoni Trust
PRS Foundation
Granada Foundation
Britten Pears Foundation
John and Susan Bowers Fund
Marchus Trust
Thistle Trust
Three Monkies Trust
Tickets - £5 / £10 + booking fee
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