ELEANOR BURKE. 555: VERLAINE EN PRISON.

‘De la musique avant toute chose’ (Paul Verlaine, L’Art Poetique)

555: Verlaine en prison explores the poet's tragic and turbulent life and his time spent in Mons prison. Featuring music from composers including Debussy, Hahn and Fauré as well as Verlaine's poetry and letters. 

The piece premiered at La Monnaie/De Munt and toured to Centre Culturel de Colfontaine in Mons, the town where Verlaine was imprisoned. Other performance venues include the Crush Room in the Royal Opera House and the Arcola Theatre at the Grimeborn Opera Festival in London.

Writer/Countertenor: Logan Lopez Gonzalez

Writer/Director: Eleanor Burke 

Actor: Anna Sideris

Pianist: Stella Marie Lorenz

Photography (De Munt): Simon Van Rompay

OPERA TODAY

“A TENDER AND TROUBLED PORTRAIT OF POETIC PROFUNDITY”

“REAPED HUGE EMOTIONAL AND DRAMATIC REWARDS.”