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Victoria Borisova-Ollas' Multimedia Work The Ground Beneath Her Feet Now Available for US Premiere

Sep. 02, 2008

Victoria Borisova-Ollas' The Ground Beneath Her Feet, an impressive multimedia work featuring a silent film by director Mike Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas) and written for two singers, a speaker and orchestra saw its world premiere in 2007 at the Manchester International Festival and is now available for US premiere. Based on Salman Rushdie's 600 page epic, the work received praise from The Times, London following its premiere in Manchester:
The premiere of The Ground Beneath Her Feet was no ordinary Hallé concert, but the latest genre-busting premiere in the Manchester International Festival. It included a silent film, quirkily shadowing the action, by the British director Mike Figgis, while on the platform Alan Rickman narrated the story and two singers took the parts of the main protagonists. Rushdie's novel is itself a many-layered thing. To condense all that into 80 action-packed minutes, yet tell the story so lucidly and movingly, was a considerable achievement on the part of the composer, Victoria Borisova-Ollas, and her librettist, Edward Kemp. Borisova-Ollas' lushly cinematic score has its estimable features. It is orchestrated deftly ... and it is capable of portraying not only intimate moments of lovemaking but also the earthquake that swallows up Vina, the wayward rock-chick who is the story's "Eurydice" figure.

A promotional DVD of the work is available by contacting info@eamdllc.com.

For more information on the music of Victoria Borisova-Ollas, please visit www.universaledition.com.

Victoria Borisova-Ollas
The Ground Beneath Her Feet (2006)
a staged performance for orchestra, singers, narrator and film
based on the novel by Salman Rushdie
libretto (En) by Edward Kemp
for soprano, baritone and narrator
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80'

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