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MATTHEW KING - COMPOSER
On London Fields
Winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society Education Award 2005. The second in a series of community opera projects (written with librettist, Alasdair Middleton) commissioned by HMDT, premiered at the Hackney Empire, November 2004.
The opera concerns the rise and fall of the 17th Century prophetess, Hannah Trapnell whose visions of a better world inspire a Hackney revolution.
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