Metamorphosis
Transformative music with images created before your very eyes
Richard Strauss Metamorphosen
Edmund Finnis new work
Oliver Leith new work
Claude Vivier Zipangu
Numbering some of Europe’s finest young string players, the trailblazing 12 Ensemble invites you to experience the transformative power of music within an immersive, AI-generated holographic world created live and directed by leading visual artist Ben Ditto. Framed by Edmund Finnis' gently rocking reworking of a William Byrd prayer ‘for light within the darkness’ and by Richard Strauss’s agonised lament over Nazi Germany’s self-inflicted wounds during World War II, the programme also pairs brutally murdered Canadian composer Claude Vivier’s 1980 tribute to Japanese kabuki theatre with an instrumental aria from Oliver Leith’s bleakly beautiful 2022 opera about the suicide of Kurt Cobain
