Page 512 - Media Coverage Book - 75th Aldeburgh Festival 2024
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10 June 2024
Weir: Blond Eckbert with English Touring Opera at the Aldeburgh
Festival | Live Review
Hattie Butterworth
Monday, June 10, 2024
Influences of Film Noir and Romantic art brought a fascinating reading of
Judith Weir's 1994 opera to open the Aldeburgh Festival
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It’s a familiar dream to up sticks and move to a secluded hut in the mountains. Though the
psychological reasons for doing so, and ensuing reality, can be far from the idyllic vision created
by Instagram and Pinterest.
For this reason, there are almost too many layers on which you could read the story of Blond
Eckbert. With a libretto by the composer herself, Judith Weir’s 1994 opera (seen here in its 2005
‘pocket’ version) we encounter the solitary lives of Eckbert and his wife Berthe, living together in
the mountains.
