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3 June 2022
Aldeburgh Festival premieres ‘Violet’ by Tom
Coult and Alice Birch
Gripping, bleak, and thought-provoking
The Aldeburgh Festival got underway on Friday 3 June at Snape Maltings
Concert Hall with the premiere of Tom Coult and Alice Birch’s opera ‘Violet’.
The apocalyptic tale documented the gradual disintegration of human life as a
town and its inhabitants slowly come to realise how time is gradually, hour by
hour, day by day, slipping away from them.
Set against an animated backdrop of constantly, the small company led by
Anna Dennis in the title role. Richard Burkhard played Felix, Frances Gregory
Laura, and Andrew Mackenzie-Wicks The Clock Keeper.
