I was lucky to get a ticket for this sold-out 'mindfulness opera' - lucky in the sense that it was sold out and lucky to have been part of this interesting event. It was conceived by Rolf Hind and is hard to describe - it was not quite a mindfulness workshop; nor was it a musical four hours. On balance it was more a workshop with music than music with a workshop and I'll remember it for the vegan lunch and concentration on the breath than the music that came and went.
What struck me most was the complete silence that the participants adhered to throughout - not just not talking, but there was hardly a cough or clearing of throat through all those hours.
It will be interesting to see how the life of this work progresses. There is clearly a demand for it but it can only be taken part in live and the limited number of participants at any one staging must make the economics tricky.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-30897593
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/sep/23/vertical-time-where-mindfulness-and-music-meet-rolf-hind-opera
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