Venue
Susie Sainsbury Theatre
Price
£17.50 - £27.50

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Programme Details

Christopher White conductor

Victoria Newlyn director
Michelle Bradbury designer
Simon Corder lighting designer

BRITTEN The Burning Fiery Furnace

‘God, give us all the strength to stand against the burning, burning murd’rous world.

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego are thrown into a fiery furnace by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar for refusing to worship his golden idol.
Can they withstand the flames?

First performed at the Aldeburgh Festival in 1966.

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