O Let Me Weep: Light Night at the Howard Assembly Room

Light Night: O Let Weep
Titania's Dream
A video installation with live performance

Fri 5pm-10pm
Free

Titania, Queen of the Fairies, awakes, realising that she has been humiliated by her husband, Oberon. She begins to sing her spellbinding lament… and opera steps down from the stage and into the room with you.

Titania’s Dream is part of Leeds’ annual Light Night festival, when arts across the city turn up in surprising ways and unexpected locations. The aria at the heart of this newly created live performance installation, ‘O Let Me Weep,’ is taken from Henry Purcell’s opera, The Fairy Queen, which was based on Shakespeare’s popular comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Titania’s Dream marks an exciting and immersive approach to experiencing opera, using elements of live performance, projection and sound recording to create a walk- through installation which will be open free to the public for Light Night. Whether you stay for five minutes or five hours, wander in and fall under the forest’s spell…

Created by Opera North and Litghtmap.

Howard Assembly Room
Enter via Leeds Grand Theatre
46 New Briggate
Leeds
LS1 6NU
www.howardassemblyroom.co.uk