Lynette Wallworth - Elegy for Young Lovers

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Lynette Wallworth’s interactive video installations form part of English National Opera and Young Vic’s joint production of Elegy for Young Lovers, directed by acclaimed actress and director Fiona Shaw.

Wallworth’s work is fundamentally responsive with a strong focus on interactivity of the viewer with the work. She presents a series of video interventions responding (some in real time) to the action of the performers, others as visual narrative for the work and another inviting the audience to engage directly the video. Wallworth is working alongside video engineer Matt Jakob to collaborate in the creation of these exciting new works.

Elegy for Young Lovers, a rarely staged masterpiece with music by Hans Werner Henze and libretto by W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman, centres on poet Gregor Mittenhofer who travels to an inn in the Austrian Alps in the hope of gaining artistic inspiration. Consumed by his desire for recognition he begins to exploit and destroy the lives of those around him to satisfy his creativity and ego.

Credits
Video Artist: Lynette Wallworth
Video design: Lynette Wallworth and Tom Pye
Video design engineered by Matt Jakob
Video Artwork produced by Forma

Related links

Lynette Wallworth biography
ENO
Young Vic
Wikipedia: Elegy for Young Lovers
Wikipedia: Hans Werner Henze
Wikipedia: W.H. Auden
Wikipedia: Chester Kallman
Wikipedia: Fiona Shaw
Tom Pye official site

Reviews
"...Tom Pye’s vividly effective design and Lynette Wallworth’s evocative video work that drama is effectively played out on an ice crevice..."
Edward Seckerson, The Independent (read full article)
"...exemplary clarity and richness of atmosphere, realised through Tom Pye’s designs and Lynette Wallworth’s icy video."
Rupert Christiansen, The Telegraph (read full article)
"...the visuals - Tom Pye’s icy sets, Lynette Wallworth’s videos and Peter Mumford’s lighting - are exceptional."
George Hall, The Stage (read full article)

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