
Navigate the Blood
Opera (2018)
a NOISE Opera production
Music by Gareth Williams & Admiral Fallow
Libretto by Sian Evans
Directed by James Robert Carson
A collaboration between Gareth and Scottish indie-folk band Admiral Fallow, Navigate the Blood pushes the boundaries of opera in new creative directions.
Navigate the Blood follows the story of Bob and Lena, a husband and wife running a small independent distillery in rural Scotland. Their son Liam disappeared in mysterious circumstances three years ago. Living and working with them is a young Polish woman named Agata. She wants to modernise the distillery by making gin as well as whisky. Into this situation comes Elijah, a young man with a strange, other worldly presence. Elijah looks and moves very like the lost boy...
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The opera is set in the world of whisky and gin manufacturing and toured distilleries across Scotland throughout November 2018.
Watch a preview of 'Where are you going?' from Navigate the Blood on BBC Radio Scotland's Classics Unwrapped on iPlayer