The Opera Group
composer Edward Rushton
BABUR
The Opera Group in collaboration with Ensemble Fur Neue Musik Zurich
Music by Edward Rushton
Words by Jeet Thayil
In development throughout 2010 and 2011 is a new project with composer Edward Rushton (whose Birds. Barks. Bones. for The Opera Group won him a British Composer’s Award). He s collaborating with Indian poet Jeet Thayil on a new opera engaging with the causes of fundamentalism. The central figure Babur – The Tiger (the first Mughal Emperor) appears as a ghost in contemporary London to debate the value of fundamentalism with a group of young people. The piece is being developed over two years in India, the UK and Switzerland with workshops in Delhi and London in 2010 providing the initial working sessions for the creative artists. The premiere of the finished work will be in 2012 in collaboration with Swiss musical ensemble Ensemble Für Neue Musik Zürich.