A Star Next to the Moon
- From to
- 7pm
Tickets
About this event:
- Category:
- Opera
- Event type:
- Booking required | In-person
- Admission:
- £30 (£15 concessions)
- Location:
- Silk Street Theatre
Event information
Stephen McNeff’s latest opera, A Star Next to the Moon, receives its world premiere at Guildhall School. Based on Juan Rulfo’s iconic novel Pedro Páramo, with a libretto by Aoife Mannix, the piece explores how love and belonging struggle under a tyrannical regime.
Juan Preciado, as a deathbed promise to his mother, sets out to find his estranged father, Pedro Páramo. But the town of his birth, Comala, is not as he expected. Strange and disturbing encounters with the mysterious inhabitants start to build a picture of a town drowning in its own past.
The details of how Pedro Páramo ruthlessly rose to power as a cruel and tyrannical landowner begin to emerge. Pedro’s one glimpse of humanity is Susana, the young woman he has loved since childhood. However, her decline into sickness and death drive Pedro to despair, and to commit his ultimate act of malice.
Read our Q&A with Stephen McNeff
Sung in English with English surtitles
Please note this production contains scenes of a sexual nature, violence and death. There will be scenes relating to mental illness, and references to abuse and discrimination. Haze will feature in this production.
Access the free digital programme for A Star Next to the Moon here.
Creative team
Martin Lloyd-Evans director
Dominic Wheeler conductor
Anna Reid designer
Anthony Doran lighting designer
Jonathan Waller fight director
Raniah Al-Sayed intimacy director
Venue information
Silk Street Theatre, Music Hall and Lecture Recital Room are located in the main Guildhall School building on Silk Street and for Barbican produced events the venue can also be accessed from the Barbican if you exit via the doors next to Barbican Kitchen on Level G.
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Silk Street
Barbican
EC2Y 8DT
