LA NONNE SANGLANTE (The Bloody Nun) - A Candlelit Concert in the Cemetery with Gothic Opera
- The Dissenters' Chapel
Description
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Something A Little Different, Theatre/Arts and Walks & Tours
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Tickets from £20.00
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This event has taken place.
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19:00 - 21:00
Enter the cemetery at sundown and proceed at your peril to this candlelit concert amidst the headstones of Kensal Green.
Gothic Opera presents the UK premiere of Gounod's opera La Nonne Sanglante (The Bloody Nun).
With a libretto based on The Monk by Matthew Lewis, the opera has been only twice revived since its creation in 1854. Please note the show will be abridged for these performances due to perilous cemetery
Gothic Opera was founded in 2019 by sopranos Beatrice de Larragoiti, Charlotte Osborn and Alice Usher. The company specialises in performances of rarely-seen 19th-century operatic works that take inspiration from the fantastical, uncanny and eerie atmosphere of Gothic fiction.
During the 19th century, all over Europe, singular, mysterious and spine-chilling operatic works were composed, influenced by the flourishing of Gothic literature that was initiated in 1764 by Horace Walpole with The Castle of Otranto. Walpole's story introduced Gothic traits such as threatening mysteries and ancestral curses, enigmatic medieval hidden passages and delicate fainting heroines.
These themes were further developed by writers like William Beckford (Vathek, 1782), Ann Radcliffe (The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1794), and Matthew Gregory Lewis’ lurid tale of monastic debauchery showcasing depraved monks and spectral nuns, The Monk (1796).
Gothic fiction reached its peak during the summer of 1816, when Polidori wrote The Vampyre, the first text popularising the theme of the vampire in literature. In the same year, Mary Shelley wrote what would become the first ever science-fiction novel, Frankenstein.
All the themes that made for the success of the Gothic genre (romantic medieval scenery, abandoned castles, chapels in ruin, melancholic moonlit cemeteries, ancestral curses, ghosts, depraved nuns, bloodthirsty vampires, pure and delicate young heroines, pacts signed with the devil…) were explored to varying degrees in operas throughout the 19th Century.
Gothic Opera bring these dark, eerie works to life, performing one of them every year during the Halloween period, embracing their inventive spirit and faded desuetude in spooky and atmospheric venues across London.
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La Nonne Sanglante (The Bloody Nun)
Candlelit Concert in the Cemetery |
19:00 - 21:00 | £20.00 |
Location
Address
The Dissenters' Chapel, Kensal Green Cemetery, 391 Ladbroke Grove, London, W10 5AB
Nearest Station
Ladbroke Grove (Tube)
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Organiser
A Curious Invitation and Antique Beat
The London Month of the Dead has been curated by a Curious Invitation and Antique Beat to inform, entertain and provoke on the subject of death and London cemeteries.
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2. Tickets are issued subject to the rules and regulations of the venue.
3. Please check your tickets, as mistakes cannot always be rectified.
4. Occasionally, events are cancelled or postponed by the promoter, team, performer or venue for a variety of reasons. If the event is cancelled, please contact us for information on receiving a refund from the responsible party. If the event was moved or rescheduled, the venue or promoter may set refund limitations. It is your responsibility to ascertain the date and time of any rearranged event.
5. The venue reserves the right to refuse admission and may on occasion have to conduct security searches to ensure the safety of the patrons.
6. Every effort to admit latecomers will be made at a suitable break in the event, but admission cannot always be guaranteed.
7. We regret that tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded after purchase.
8. Tickets are sold subject to the venue or promoter's right to alter or vary the programme due to events or circumstances beyond its control without being obliged to refund monies or exchange tickets.
9. If this ticket is re-sold or transferred for profit or commercial gain by anyone other than the promoter, venue management, DesignMyNight or one of their authorised sub-agents, it will become voidable and the holder may be
refused entry to or ejected from the venue.
10. The venue may operate a No Smoking Policy.
11. The promoter, venue management and DesignMyNight accept no responsibility for any personal property.
12. The event listed on the purchased ticket is strictly for ticket holders who are over 18 years of age. Identification may be required.
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