MAYAKOVSKY

World premiere
By Michael Smetanin & Alison Croggon

Vladimir Mayakovsky: poet, lover, revolutionary. Innovative Australian composer Michael Smetanin joins forces with award-winning writer and librettist Alison Croggon to tell the incendiary story of Stalin’s favourite poet.

Mayakovsky blends Russian Futurism with hypermodern electronica in a dizzying ride through the 20th century. Its epic canvas is populated by a parade of figures: lovers, apparatchiks, writers, radicals, and Uncle Joe Stalin himself. It begins with a voice from the future and ends in cataclysm. It is fierce, uncompromising, and strangely beautiful.

Sydney Chamber Opera’s world premiere production brings the pulsing energies of rebellion to the Carriageworks stage.

Creative Team

Conductor
Jack Symonds

Director
Kat Henry

Set & Costume Design
Hanna Sandgren

Lighting Design
Guy Harding

AV Design
Davros

Performers

With
Simon Lobelson
Jessica O’Donoghue
Sarah Toth
Lotte Betts-Dean
Mitchell Riley
Brenton Spiteri

Instruments
James Nightingale
Nicholas Russionello
Michael Wray
Michael Dixon
Rainer Saville
Matthew Harrison
Joe Manton
Stefania Kurniawan

Acknowledgements

Gallery

VENUE

Carriageworks
Bay 20, 245 Wilson St, Eveleigh

duration

95 minutes

Press Reviews

"Mayakovsky by Sydney Chamber Opera captures the manic anarchy of an unsustainable life"

“Another feather in the cap…of one of Australia’s most adventurous opera companies”

“Thrillingly theatrical”

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We acknowledge the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation as the traditional custodians of the land on which we work and perform. We honour their elders both past and present, and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.