Dream Hunter

The Mornington Trust and Lontano Trust Ltd, in co-production with Wiltons Music Hall, present the London premiere of Nichola LeFanu's chamber opera (libretto by John Fuller). Set in Corsica in the late nineteenth century, it explores the ambiguity surrounding the mazzere – women gifted with the prescience of death. If they foresee death, do they also cause it? The men hunt by day, but the women hunt in their dreams. Turning on a collision of two worlds: the world of dreams, where our fantasy knows no bounds, and the 'real' world where our actions will be judged, as the story unfolds, imagination and reality become entwined. Odaline de la Martinez conducts Lontano. Directed by Carmen Jakobi. (Note: the first half of the evening presents two chamber works: Libby Larsen's Trio in Four Movements; and Annea Lockwood's 'Monkey Trips'. 'Dream Hunter' lasts 50 minutes.)