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29.09.18

Conducted by Matthew Owens

Staging by Sam Jacob
Scenography by Matthew Day Jackson
Feast by Lucas Hollweg & Lucie Reader
Presented in conjunction with Drawing Matter, Hauser & Wirth Somerset and The Architecture Foundation

The Cowshed at Shatwell Farm, Somerset

For one evening The Cowshed at Shatwell Farm, designed by Stephen Taylor, was transformed to host Henry Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas. An evening that fused architecture, drawing, music and feasting.

The opera was conducted by Matthew Owens (former director of music at Wells Cathedral) and featured staging by architect Sam Jacob and scenography by Matthew Day Jackson (artist in residence at Hauser & Wirth Somerset). The performance was presented in conjunction with Drawing Matter, Hauser & Wirth Somerset and The Architecture Foundation.

Review: Architects’ Journal

Photographs by Vince Evans.

^{Staging by Sam Jacob}

^{Scenography by Matthew Day Jackson}