Based on Sheikh Zayed’s vision for a green desert, a new work featuring two opera singers and eighty school children.
Explore the late Sheikh Zayed’s vision of a green desert, in an opera that embraces music, drama, movement, design and film, with a cast of two professional opera singers accompanied by 80 school children.
Following the success of A Beautiful World in late 2016, Cranleigh Abu Dhabi school presents its second opera project. Acclaimed director Karen Gillingham returns with her world renowned creative team for Water in the Desert: A Zayed Legacy in celebration of the Year of Zayed.
The Creative Team
- Karen Gillingham (Director/Artistic Director)
- Hannah Conway (Composer/Music Director)
- Natasha Khamjani (Choreographer)
- Rhiannon Newman-Brown (Designer)
- Peter Cant (Librettist)
- Robert Gildon (Baritone)
- Natalie Montakhab (Soprano)
- Magali Charrier (Designer Videographer)
- Susan Hamilton (Producer)
Presented in partnership with Cranleigh Abu Dhabi and the Ministry of Tolerance UAE.
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