WORLD PREMIERE
RUNE premieres on 17th August at Round Chapel as part of Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2021.
A grand, fashion-opera spectacle, RUNE is a vast cosmological fantasy from the team behind the award-nominated ROBE (“excellent” – BBC Music) and WEAR (“spellbinding” – Boulezian) — featuring an ensemble of three grand pianos, contemporary dance with interactive sculpture, and high fashion by Ka Wa Key.
On a planet where history is forbidden, a young girl dares to tell her story. A voyage across galaxies and millennia, hers is a tale of the archipelagos of Khye-rell and their matterwork, through transdimensional canals and sea lanes to the RUNE of the universe’s origin. This song, her story — through the very act of being told — will have consequences beyond imagining…
Written & Composed by Alastair White
SS22 Capsule Collection by KA WA KEY
Sculpture by Sid the Salmon
Directed by Gemma A. Williams & Jarno Leppanen
Produced by UU Studios