Sacred Mountain

Modified on Tue, 4 Oct, 2022 at 10:03 PM

Shirley Thompson (composer and librettist). Sacred Mountain. UK, 2015.


A chamber opera celebrating the heroic life and deeds of Queen Nanny of the Maroons. A national heroine of Jamaica, she led the Windward Maroons into battle against the British during the First Maroon War (1720-1739). This experimental work, which features contemporary vocal, spoken word artistry, orchestral music and dance, is the first in Thompson’s ‘Heroines of Opera’ series.

Read about and watch it here: https://www.tete-a-tete.org.uk/event/sacred-mountain/ 

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