The Pardoner’s Tale
Friday, 17 June at 10.00 pm & Saturday, 18 June at 10.00 pm
These are archived details from 2011 – current details are also available.
| Alan Ridout | music |
|---|---|
| Norman Platt | libretto |
Fully staged new production of the one-act opera commissioned by Kent Opera in 1971
Chaucer’s famous 14th-century Canterbury Tale of three rioters, Gross, Mean and Young, on a drunken journey to find Death and kill him, is brilliantly depicted in Norman Platt’s skilful adaptation of the story and Alan Ridout’s colourful score.
| Death | Michael Chance |
|---|---|
| Gross | Duncan Perkins |
| Mean | Paul Young |
| Young | Thomas Eaglen |
| Hostess | Harriet Williams |
| Producer | Amanda Knott |
| Designer | Jo Hughes |
| Lighting | Dee Ashworth |
| Stour Music Chamber Orchestra | |
|---|---|
| leader: Margot Rusmanis harpsicord: Helen Crayford | |
| Conductor: Mark Deller |
Artist’s site: Michael Chance
Tickets:£15 (numbered & reserved)£10 (unreserved/restricted view)
This production has been sponsored very generously in memory of Alan Ridout & Norman Platt