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Scenes from Gaddafi at ENO, with Ramon Tikaram in the title role and Sharon Duncan-Brewster as Fatima. | |
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“The old guard were cowering in their seats as the huge bass frequencies boomed out. Singing was conspicuous by its absence … All we tended to get was a bit of shouting.” (The Telegraph)
“It’s not really an opera but could well become the Evita of this decade — a slick, sardonic and cynical treatment of recent history.” (The Times)
“A breath of fresh air … raises questions that are much more important about the world we live in.” (musicOMH)
“It is not exactly opera but it makes the perfect PC (Politically Correct) musical.” (The Independent)
“A total failure … the kind of ill-conceived insult to one’s intelligence which leaves you reeling at the thought that the ENO could have supported it. (GramophoneOnline)
“Clumsy rhyme ruins for me, a daft tale of Tripoli” (headline in the Financial Times)
“A few brief songs emerged like brilliant shooting stars out of the aural putty, but the rest seemed to echo Bombay Dreamspickled with Holst’s The Planets and a dash of crunk rap.” (Evening Standard)
“No show this weird can be truly bad.” (Associated Press)
Therewith, a sampling of the reception that English National Opera‘s season-opening production received in the press over the weekend.
“The audience isn’t going to know what’s hit them. It’s not necessarily going to be a comfortable evening, but it will be a highly contentious, visceral experience.” That was ENO artistic director John Berry, quoted by the AP last week, anticipating reaction to Gaddafi: A Living Myth.
He got that right.
The work was commissioned by ENO from Asian Dub Foundation, a music collective variously described as “dance/hip-hop,” “exotic electronica” and “raga/rap.” The music was composed for the strings and brass of the ENO orchestra, plus Arabic lutes and drums and various electronic beats, by the Foundation’s Steve Chandra Savale (a/k/a “Chandrasonic”). The project was billed as the world’s first rap opera when it was announced; in the event, the rapper engaged to play the Libyan leader pulled out (replaced by a popular television star), and the text is mostly spoken, or shouted, over the instrumental score.
Gaddafi was one of several seemingly radical ideas undertaken by Berry’s predecessor, Seán Doran — who was ousted as ENO artistic director last year amid increasing turmoil within the company — to attract to the house audience members who normally wouldn’t consider going to the opera, a pastime associated with upper-class poshness even more in England than in the US.
(Of the other such ideas Doran had, the ones that went over best were a 2004 concert performance of Act II of Wagner’s Die Walküre at the Glastonbury Festival, an outdoor rock event, and engaging filmmaker Anthony Minghella to direct Puccini’s Madama Butterfly. The latter staging was a major hit, and has been imported by the Metropolitan Opera to open its 2006-07 season on September 25.)
It’s too soon to tell whether new audiences are coming to the Coliseum to see Gaddafi (it runs in repertory through September 16), let alone whether they’ll come back to see La traviata or even Philip Glass’s Satyagraha.
But observers can, and do, argue about the work’s quality and whether or not it belongs in the opera house. Most of the critics have plenty of praise for actor Ramon Tikaram’s charisma and stage presence in the title role. But the rhymed-couplet libretto by Shan Khan was heaped with blistering scorn: “a sprawling series of bloody episodes,” wrote the Evening Standard‘s critic, “heavy on tendentious flab, short on drama.”
And is it an opera or not? Composer Savale told The Telegraph: “In terms of structure it is operatic, although there is no operatic singing. But it deals with some big, universal themes through the medium of music, so perhaps it is. But a question we are asking is why should opera sound a particular way?”
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Scenes from Gaddafi at ENO, with Ramon Tikaram in the title role. (And yes, that’s supposed to be Ronald Reagan at upper left.) | |
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Not exactly opera, but it makes the perfect PC musical
FRIDAY 08 SEPTEMBER 2006
Wheels grind slow in the opera world, and sometimes all the better for it. Three years ago, Steve “Chandrasonic” Savale persuaded the then boss of English National Opera to commission his raga-rap Asian Dub Foundation to create a piece about Muammar Gaddafi. Time passed, the boss was sacked, more gestation-time was granted, and the world moved on: the easy political certainties of 2003 gave way to the swirling doubt by which we’re now surrounded, where friends and foes are hard to tell apart.
As Savale points out in his programme note, there’s a plethora of ways in which we can view Gaddafi: brutal tyrant and purveyor of terrorism? Misrepresented national hero, anti-imperialist champion of the oppressed? Or just a marginal figure whom oil has thrust into the limelight? What Savale claims to offer – and what the Libyan embassy bought tickets en masse last night to see – is an “audio-visual re-imagining of the myth”.
It’s clear from the outset that we’re in for a very fast canter through 80 years of history, and designer Es Devlin wastes no time. Her notion of Libya is as a blank canvas, on which Gaddafi is given licence to paint. Each new political event invites a new layer of paper, plus a fresh flurry of video projections. History is made and remade. And it works: different coloured lights seen through incised paper make a dainty palace for King Idris, which cuts immediately to the Six Day War done in giant headlines with archive footage of fighting in the desert.
Warned by director David Freeman that this is not a musical, and that “there’s not much singing in it”, one can readily accept that this is basically a spoken drama plus soundtrack. It begins pretty creakily, like an old-fashioned son et lumiere, but soon builds momentum.
Ramon Tikaram’s blustering Gaddafi – with a hint of depressive, paranoid depths – intones his lines (which have more than a touch of the Rupert Bear) over a pre-recorded drumming track, and at moments is almost endearing. But though no “composer” is credited, this is very much Asian Dub Foundation’s show. As part of our aural furniture, their style is a known quality, and it’s both loud and crude: when the massed strings in the pit come in at the beginning, backed by synthesised sound from elsewhere, one feels almost sorry for the little figures on stage, miked though they are.
So will this work, as ENO boss John Berry avers, “redefine opera”? Hardly. But if some West End producer is looking for an impeccably PC musical, this could be it.
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Neither a hit nor a myth
By Anna Picard, The Independent, 17 September 2006It was fitting that before the premiere of Gaddafi: A Living Myth, no one involved in this unlikely collaboration between Asian Dub Foundation, playwright Shan Khan, and English National Opera could agree on a term to describe the finished product. Asked whether his score was operatic, ADF’s Steve Chandra Savale, who admitted little knowledge of the art-form but professed himself interested in it “as a concept”, fired back: “Well, what is opera?” Meanwhile, the ENO website issued an optimistic advertisement for “an exhilarating collision of live music, theatre, and film”. Oiled by unprecedented media attention, the opening night of Gaddafi Orchestrated by no less than three ghost-composers, Savale’s score is Where Alice Goodman used the concentrate of a diplomatic visit for Khan’s biographical tableaux bring us no closer to a man variously Though director David Freeman and designer Es Devlin have done their If Gaddafi: A Living Myth does little to demythologise its subject, |
Springtime for Muammar
By Karla Adam, Newsweek, Sept. 13, 2006
Brian Green was stunned at what he saw when he opened the heavy oak
doors at the English National Opera. The 44-year-old opera singer is
no stranger to the high arts, but on this particular opening night he
was agog at who he saw milling about in the ornate lobby: senior
citizens in black tie, teenagers in cargo pants and a significant
number of twentysomethings wearing flip-flops.
The diverse crowd had congregated for the highly anticipated hip-hop
opera “Gaddafi: A Living Myth” which runs through Sept. 16. At worst
it may sound like a joke, at best a cheesy Mel Brooks knockoff. But
thisdare we call it a “hip-hopera?”is neither. The story follows
the life of Col. Muammar Kaddafi, the leader of Libya since 1969. The
soundtrack is built on ragga-jungle rhythms (an electronic form of
reggae), and if this sounds nothing like a typical night out at the
opera, well that’s the point.
So if the new work was meant to shock, then it succeeded. Critics
around London were left sputtering their wine as they grappled with
the rap-staccato singing over the brash and synthesized score by the
Asian Dub Foundation, a popular electro-punk collective. The
Telegraph gleefully reported that the “old guard were cowering in
their seats” while the Independent sniffed that the music was “loud
and crude.” The Times of London noted that while critics had
different things to say about the opera, “all agreed it was
completely bonkers.”
There is more to the opera than just the outre score, of course. This
is, after all, the story of a man Ronald Reagan once called “the mad
dog of the Middle East.” Played convincingly by Ramon Tikaram, the
fictionalized Kaddafi tends to surround himself with a cadre of
Amazonian female bodyguards who occasionally bust out a hip-hop
dance. The rest of the large, multiethnic cast play a variety of
rolesReagan, Tony Blair, Islamic terrorists and Kaddafi’s kids among
themto track the Libyan leader’s meteoritic rise from a poor boy
born in a tent in the desert to a man once high on America’s list of
dangerous tyrants.
But for all its roaring energy, there are several blunders. The plot
unfurls in disparate vignettesKaddafi plays soccer with his sons in
one scene, hosts Tony Blair in a Bedouin tent in anotherand they
fail to sew together a compelling narrative or even offer new insight
into Kaddafi’s psyche. The plot is paper-thin and there is little
conflict or suspense to push it forward.
This may not matter as much as it should. Although the opera was, for
the most part, critically panned on opening night, by its third
performance it had sold out. When artistic director John Berry was
asked minutes before the opening curtain what he hoped to achieve, he
told NEWSWEEK, “I hope this draws a new and diverse audience.” Given
the sheer number of hipsters trampling in off the street, the English
National Opera may well consider this one a success.
Opera
Gaddafi: A Living Myth
Coliseum, London

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- guardian.co.uk, Friday 8 September 2006 10.33 BST

English National Opera open their new season with an evening of unclassifiable music theatre.
Gaddafi: A Living Myth is part contemporary opera, part pop musical, and part cross-cultural dance track, with a score composed by Asian Dub Foundation, a libretto by Shan Khan and a production masterminded by director David Freeman.
It’s a brave attempt to create a vision for new opera in 2006 by dramatising the life of one of today’s most controversial politicians, but sadly the evening is never more than a hodgepodge of musical and cultural influences, with the amplified ENO orchestra augmented by the guitars and ouds of the Third Universal Band and an accompaniment of sampled beats.
The problem is that the story fails to answer the question that Ramon Tikaram’s Gadafy poses in his first entrance: “Who am I?” Instead of setting Khan’s text to music, ADF tell the Gadafy story with actors declaiming their words over the score, conducted by James Morgan. All of the characters, from Ben Bishop’s oleaginous Mr Mister, the embodiment of US imperialism, to Nicholas Khan’s Major Jalloud, have to shout their lines. It doesn’t help that the libretto inhabits an uneasy middle ground between rhyming doggerel and rap, so the characters are never more than one-dimensional stereotypes.
The story-telling is an uncomfortable mix of political hectoring and history lesson – the first half confusingly cuts between Gadafy in his bunker in 1986 during the American raids, the discovery of oil in Libya in the 50s, and the days before the coup in 1969 – and the show never decides whether it’s exploring the psychology of Libya’s leader or commenting on today’s political situation.
The staging has some neat ideas, using paper screens to project a kaleidoscopic video track, but it has some risible moments that look and sound like a Middle Eastern version of Springtime for Hitler. The production really loses its way in the second half, building to a messy climax with Tony Blair’s 2004 meeting with Gadafy. The most profound thing the show says is reserved for the final moments, when Gadafy says to the audience: “If I wasn’t here, you’d need an actor to play me.” Gaddafi may be a living myth, but it’s dead music theatre.
· In rep until September 16. Box office: 0870 145 0200.
Gaddafi: a living miss
ENO‘s attempt to piggy back off the trendiness of the Asian Dub Foundation reeks of cynicism and fear
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- The Guardian, Tuesday 12 September 2006

What’s depressing about this is that it feels like a case of one struggling and unfashionable artform piggy-backing off the trendiness of another. It’s a trade: ENO gets to be perfumed by hip-hop’s cool, whereas ADF gets to experiment with a different form on a national stage.
Nor would the trade-off be unacceptable if it seemed as if making the work had been an artistic necessity. But it didn’t. If the writers had any notion of the theatre, had anything that urgently needed to be said on the lyric stage, then it was lost on me. Indeed, it was hardly as if ADF had been haunting opera houses for years, dreaming of a commission: the idea that Steve Savale of ADF’s interest in Gaddafi should be converted into an opera came not from him, but from an impresario, Alex Poots, briefly the head of contemporary arts at ENO.
To be clear, the argument here is not that artists working in other forms should somehow be prevented from working in opera, or that opera should be kept pure for the members of an exclusive inner circle. Some of the most memorable interventions in lyric theatre have been from artists known primarily for other media: the Quay Brothers’ designs; Mark Morris’s choreography; Auden’s libretto for The Rake’s Progress; Minghella’s direction of Madam Butterfly.
The observation is simply this: ENO’s attitude that ADF should be brought in to brighten or shake up opera smells of cynicism rather than artistic conviction.
Worse than that, it smells of fear. John Berry, the artistic director of ENO, last week said that the word “opera” was a major problem with audiences, and that word has been suppressed in marketing the project. At the same time, he hopes that at least “a handful” of the new audiences brought to the Coliseum by Gaddafi will return to see more traditional works.
But if you imagine that new audiences will come to the Coliseum only for “not-opera”, surely it is illogical to believe that they will return for what you bill incontrovertibly as opera? And if you, the management of the national opera company, contend that opera is such a bitter pill to swallow that it has to be disguised, if you have such little confidence in the artform, then why, bluntly, should anyone else be interested in it?
No one doubts the right, indeed the duty, of ENO to experiment, to evolve the artform, to widen the pool of artists with whom it works – and to fail honourably, from time to time, in doing that. But Gaddafi: A Living Myth is, alas, a phoney.
· Charlotte Higgins is a Guardian arts correspondent
From Pierre Tristam, former About.com GuideIn September 2006, the English National Opera and the BBC produced an opera about the life of Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi titled, “Gaddafi.” (Spellings of Qaddafi’s name have ranged from those used here to Kaddafi, Kadafi, Ghaddafi and more.)
The opera was “an examination of the creation of a myth,” retelling the story of a Bedouin who becomes a powerful political leader. The chorus represented Qaddafi’s all-female bodyguards. The opera was directed by British film director Antonia Bird. The music was written by Steve Chandra Savale, a former guitarist with the group Asian Dub Foundation, on a libretto by playwright Shan Khan.
“It’s a brave attempt to create a vision for new opera in 2006 by dramatising the life of one of today’s most controversial politicians,” The Guardian wrote, “but sadly the evening is never more than a hodgepodge of musical and cultural influences, with the amplified ENO orchestra augmented by the guitars and ouds of the Third Universal Band and an accompaniment of sampled beats.
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A new opera based on the life of the Libyan leader Muammar el-Qaddafi, featuring a rapper as Qaddafi and a chorus of all-female bodyguards, highlights the new season of the English National Opera. The program of London’s second-largest opera company will be the first season fully organized by the company’s new artistic director, Sean Doran.Arts, Briefly; Qaddafi, the Opera
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By HEATHER TIMMONS; Compiled by Ben Sisario
Published: 17 January 2005The English National Opera and the BBC are producing an opera about the life of the Libyan leader Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, below. The piece, titled ”Gaddafi,” will be ”an examination of the creation of a myth,” and will tell the story of a man born into a Bedouin tribe who becomes a powerful political leader, the opera company said. Colonel Qaddafi’s all-female pack of bodyguards will be represented by the opera’s chorus. The British film director Antonia Bird, whose movie ”Priest,” about a gay clergyman, won the International Critics Award at the BerlinFilm Festival in 1995, will make her opera debut directing the work. Steve Chandra Savale, a former guitarist with the group Asian Dub Foundation, will compose the score, and the playwright Shan Khan will write the libretto. The opera is scheduled to open in February 2006. HEATHER TIMMONSMuammar Muhammad Abu mInyar Al Gaddafi: -
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“Gaddafi: A Living Myth”
Coliseum, London WC2Tony Blair’s bad week got worse on Thursday evening, when he was depicted on the stage of a state-subsidised London theatre accepting a fat cheque from the man once known as ‘the godfather of terror’, Libya’s Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi.
…OK, the music column does not usually devote its first three paragraphs to political analysis, but this week it is unavoidable. Asian Dub Foundation’s Gaddafi: A Living Myth is presented on the stage (and in the name) of English National Opera. There is no way the piece can be called an opera – none of its leading characters even sings – but it is certainly a brash work of music-theatre, making an ambitious attempt to grapple with complex contemporary issues.
Accentuate that word ‘attempt’, for the piece signally fails to answer the questions it raises. The many conflicting sides to the intriguing figure of Gaddafi are serially presented, uniform by uniform – liberator, ideologue, religious zealot,..but the end-product fails to take a position. The first half is an inert Wikipedia guide to the Libyan leader, a dictator painted by numbers, and the more animated second a confused morass of suggestive set-pieces, sending us back into the night to sort it out over dinner.
This is largely the fault of the writer (or ‘librettist’), Shan Khan, whose decision to go for rhyming couplets leads to long stretches of jaw-dropping banality. Ronald Reagan, for instance, rapping to his advisers that ‘All this hocus-pocus don’t sharpen my focus’. Or Gaddafi himself proclaiming that ‘Terrorists are those who have not yet won/The West knows that power comes from the barrel of a gun.’…
Colonel could be a kind of catalyst for Arab unity.
Gaddafi’s own inspiration is Egypt’s Nasser, who opens the evening with the thought that the Arab world harbours ‘a role wandering aimlessly in search of a hero’. This would seem to suggest that the ensuing story is that of the hero finally filling this role. But the team that has put it together fails to come up with the courage of that, or any other, conviction.
They are blessed in the confident, inventive direction of David Freeman, and the bravura acting of Ramon Tikaram in the title-role. The designs of Es Devlin are lavish and innovative, but the choreography of Hakeem Onibudo is cringe-makingly Top of the Pops hackneyed – above all in the case of Gaddafi’s glamorous female bodyguards.
The music of Steve Chandra Savale and his ADF ranges from hip-hop to rap, electronic tub-thumping to cliched movie soundtrack. But the members of ENO’s house orchestra joining the jam-session, conducted by James Morgan, are the only possible justification for a national opera company hosting this piece. In the West End it would be shrugged offstage as an amateurish update of Evita. At the Coliseum it is an aberrant false start to an otherwise bums-on-seats new season.

















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Ionarts: Gaddafi: Failure or Triumph?
17 sept. 2006 – by Charles T. Downey | Sunday, September 17, 2006 … On Friday night,English National Opera
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Gaddafi: A Living Myth – Tags: THEATER — Reviews OPERA
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London opera on Qadhafi hits right note – Ummah.com
16 sept. 2006 – 2 messages – 2 auteursStoryID=20060914-111143-8339r London opera on Qadhafi hits … 2006 ‘LIVING MYTH’:
Actor Ramon Tikaram plays Colonel Qadhafi at a dress rehearsal for the opera ‘Gaddafi:A Living Myth’ at the Coliseum in London September 5. … persuaded the then director of the English National Opera (ENO), … -
New opera turns Libya’s Gadhafi into “superstar” – The Seattle Times
8 sept. 2006 – If Moammar Gadhafi dropped by to check out the English National Opera’s latest …
In “Gaddafi: A Living Myth,” the Libyan leader bestrides the stage of… Its 2006-2007 seasonincludes a Sanskrit-language opera about Indian … -
IndieLondon: Gaddafi: A Living Myth – London Coliseum – Your …
http://www.indielondon.co.uk/…/gaddafi-a-living-myth-lon…… relevance, the English National Opera is presenting Gaddafi: A Living Myth, at the London Coliseum. …
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Gaddafi on stage | GulfNews.com
27 juil. 2006 – Commissioned by the English National Opera (ENO) and UK television network Channel Four,
Gaddafi: A Living Myth opens in September and …
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Arts, Briefly – New York Times
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TheEnglish National Opera’s production of “Gaddafi: A Living Myth” has had its … 13,2006.A report in the “Arts, Briefly” column on Monday about the Venice …
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http://www.lively-arts.com/opera/2007/0703/gaddafi.htmGaddafi: A Living Myth. Review by Polly Hope. English National Opera. London. Autumn 2006.
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‘Gaddafi: A Living Myth’ musical version of Libyan leader’s life
First Published: 2006-09-04. ‘Gaddafi: A Living Myth’ musical version of Libyan leader’s life.
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BBC NEWS | In Pictures | Opera house stages Gaddafi show
Last Updated: Wednesday, 6 September 2006, 13:39 GMT 14:39 UK. E-mail this to a friend.
Opera house stages Gaddafi show. YOUR PICTURE GALLERY IS … -
Ionarts: Gaddafi: Failure or Triumph?
17 sept. 2006 – by Charles T. Downey | Sunday, September 17, 2006 …
On Friday night,English National Opera launched its new season with a bold …Gaddafi: A Living Myth created an extraordinary buzz of anticipation before its opening … -
Nation and World (283) – Search Results – Local Search
In “Gaddafi: A Living Myth,” the Libyan leader bestrides the stage of London… 9/7/2006 | seattletimes.com |
find similar results … Gadhafi dropped by to check out theEnglish National Opera’s latest production, he might well be pleased. -
Gaddafi: A Living Myth – Tags: THEATER — Reviews OPERA
November 2006 … The article reviews the opera “Gaddafi: A Living Myth,” directed by Steven …
The opera was presented by the English National Opera. -
London opera on Qadhafi hits right note – Ummah.com
16 sept. 2006 – 2 messages – 2 auteursStoryID=20060914-111143-8339r London opera on Qadhafi hits … 2006 ‘LIVING MYTH’:
Actor Ramon Tikaram plays Colonel Qadhafi at a dress rehearsal for the opera ‘Gaddafi:A Living Myth’ at the Coliseum in London September 5. … persuaded the then director of the English National Opera (ENO), … -
New opera turns Libya’s Gadhafi into “superstar” – The Seattle Times
8 sept. 2006 – If Moammar Gadhafi dropped by to check out the English National Opera’s latest …
In “Gaddafi: A Living Myth,” the Libyan leader bestrides the stage of… Its 2006-2007 season includes aSanskrit-language opera about Indian … -
IndieLondon: Gaddafi: A Living Myth – London Coliseum – Your …
http://www.indielondon.co.uk/…/gaddafi-a-living-myth-lon…… relevance, the English National Opera is presenting Gaddafi: A Living Myth, at the London Coliseum. …
Performances: September 7, 8, 9, 14, 15 and 16, 2006. -
Gaddafi on stage | GulfNews.com
gulfnews.com/about…/gaddafi-on-stage-1.3966027 juil. 2006 – Commissioned by the English National Opera (ENO) and UK television network Channel Four,
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Gaddafi: The Man – The Myth – The Mess | FreakyTrigger
15 sept. 2006 – So forget that were are at the home of the English National Opera, the Coliseum, and instead consider …
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Where’s singing in Gaddafi opera, UK critics ask – Oneindia News
Published: Saturday, September 9, 2006, 11:34 [IST] … English National Opera (ENO), one of Britain’s
two main opera houses, won … mix of musical styles in ”Gaddafi: A Living Myth” and critics complained itcontained little rap and no opera. -
Gaddafi on Political Assassinations and the Glory of Suicide | Tufts …
fletcher.tufts.edu/…/Gaddafi-on-Political-Assassinatio…11 mars 2011 – Not since the days of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin (1971-1979) has political opera bouffe been on such …
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Asian Dub Foundation’s GADDAFI: A LIVING MYTH – YouTube
18 août 2006 – Ajouté par enogaddafiAsian Dub Foundation’s GADDAFI: A LIVING MYTH … Uploaded on Aug 18, 2006 … or chuckled at the …
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Gaddafi: A Living Myth, Asian Dub Foundation & ENO | urban75 …
8 sept. 2006 – Gaddafi: A Living Myth, Asian Dub Foundation & ENO. Discussion in ‘music, bands,
clubs & festies’ started by Firky, Sep 8, 2006. … Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, will be turnedinto a musical by the English National Opera. -
Colonel calls the tune – Archive – Al Jazeera English
http://www.aljazeera.com/…/2006/…/20084101142358263…David Connolly Last Modified: 06 Sep 2006 04:58 GMT … English National Opera(ENO) is staging the dub/
punk opera Gaddafi: A Living Myth which has been composed by Steve Chandra Savale of the electronica-punk collective the Asian … -
the tanjara: gaddafi: a living myth
Monday, September 11, 2006. gaddafi: a living myth. The show “Gaddafi: A Living Myth”, which burst last week onto
the stage of the … Asian Dub Foundation, Middle Eastern musicians and the ENO orchestra with rap …by the Australian opera director David Freeman, is an opera, a musical, a hybrid of both or a new form. -
Libya’s ‘Gadhafi’ Focus of London Opera
http://www.apnewsarchive.com/2006/…Opera/id-faa432b7…7 sept. 2006 – 7, 2006 3:39 PM ET. LONDON … Now Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi is an operatic hero. …
is the central figure in “Gaddafi: A Living Myth,” the highly anticipated season-opener from the English National Opera. -
Gaddafi: The Opera – Time Out
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Modern opera: five hits and misses – Telegraph
30 janv. 2011 – Gaddafi: A Living Myth at the English National Opera. Hopelessly out of their …
Into the Little Hill Paris, 2006. A 40-minute chamber opera with a …
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Gadhafi opera bewilders critics – 中国社会保障网
http://www.cnss.cn/…/en/…/200609/t20060911_22024.htmPOSTED: 8:30 a.m. EDT, September 8, 2006 POSTED: 1230 GMT (2030 HKT), …English National Opera (ENO),
one of Britain’s two main opera houses, won … faced a bewildering mix of musical styles in “Gaddafi: A Living Myth” and critics … -
First of its kind / Arts / Culture / Home – Morning Star
Monday 11 September 2006 … Three years in the making, Gaddafi: A Living Mythopens the autumn English National Opera
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The new generation of opera has emerged and it ain’t … – OperaOnline
Commentary: October, 2006. The new generation of opera has, … Last month, Newsweek, among others, took notice
when the English National Opera (ENO) staged its World Premiere hip-hopera, “Gaddafi: A Living Myth.” With music by an … -
Stock Photography image of Gaddafi : A Living Myth Ramon Tikaram …
Stock photo image of Gaddafi : A Living Myth Ramon Tikaram as Gaddafi in anEnglish National Opera production at the
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Savale/Khan Gaddafi: A Living Myth – Musical Pointers
ENO at the Coliseum, London September 07, 2006 … unworthy of its hosting under the auspices of English National Opera,
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McRae The Assassin Tree – Musical Pointers
Linbury Studio Theatre at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden … Gaddafi: A Living Myth … ENO at the Coliseum,
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Old News – Dominic Sewell Music
16 mai 2013 – Composer of music for three short films for English National Ballet;. Composer for ‘Summertime’ … 2006-2007.
Music Lecturer Trinity … mixed ensemble. Copyist/Consultations English National Opera. Gaddafi – a Living Myth … -
Ibrahim Warde: Gaddafi on Political Assassinations and the Glory of …
11 mars 2011 – Not since the days of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin (1971-1979) has political opera bouffe been on such …
subject of an opera (produced in September 2006 by theEnglish National Opera under the title Gaddafi: A Living Myth) … -
Kaddafi Opera Rocks London – Newsweek and The Daily Beast
http://www.thedailybeast.com/…/2006/…/springtime-for-mu…12 sept. 2006 – Brian Green was stunned at what he saw when he opened the heavy oak doors at the English National Opera. …
Sep 12, 2006 8:00 PM EDT … anticipated hip-hop opera “Gaddafi: A Living Myth” which runs through Sept. 16. -
Loud, lewd and nasty – New Statesman
By Peter Conrad Published 18 September 2006 …. “Gaddafi: a living myth” is atEnglish National Opera, London WC2, until
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On An Overgrown Path: Much music, but how much merit?
http://www.overgrownpath.com/2006/…/much-music-but-h…Tuesday, September 05, 2006 … the autumn is almost certain to be the premiere on Thursday September 7
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music – Sacred Space Gallery
He collaborated as composer/arranger/musician with the English National Opera Gaddafi, A Living Myth,
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Silk_Road – Sacred Space Gallery
He collaborated as composer/arranger/musician with the English National Opera Gaddafi, A Living Myth,
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Queen theatrical productions. Musical Dome, Cologne. 2006, Ensemble Theatre,Gaddafi: A Living Myth David Freeman,
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Ramon Tikaram – WinterIsComing.net
winter-is-coming.net/features/cast/…/ramon-tikaram/Actor Bio: Ramon Tikaram is a British stage and screen actor of Indo-Fijian and Malaysian … of The Ramayana, and
Gaddafi in Gaddafi: A Living Myth, a dub/punk opera by Asian Dub Foundation, staged by the English National Opera in 2006.-
Creative Team | Chimerica | Almeida Theatre, London
Opera includes:Beatrice et Benedict (Theater an der Wien); Imago; Knight Crew … in 2010,2011 and 2012 and
the Olivier Award for Best Costume Design in 2006. …. water) (Frantic Assembly); Gaddafi; A Living Myth(English National Opera); …
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