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SCIPIO’S DREAM

1991 29′ Music Drama
BBC / AVRO / RM Associates
Not Mozart Series
Composer Judith Weir and director Margaret Williams collaborate on a film homage to a great composer.
Scipio's dream

S Y N O P S I S

SCIPIO’S DREAM was one of a series of five programmes in which contemporary European composers were invited to collaborate with filmmakers of their choice, taking inspiration from any aspect of Mozart’s life or work, however fanciful. The intention was that the filmmakers’ skills would enable the composers to realise their response to Mozart (and his Bi-centenary) with specially composed music as the key element in each film.

C R E D I T S

director
MARGARET WILLIAMS

composer
JUDITH WEIR

libretto
NICK HERRETT

conductor
ANDREW PARROTT

orchestra
ENDYMION ENSEMBLE

soloists
FRANCES LYNCH
JO MCNALLY
GWION THOMAS
JAMES MEEK
CLIVE WILLIAMS

director of photography
PAUL WHEELER

production designer
MIRANDA MELVILLE

producers
ELIZABETH QUEENAN
ANNETTE MORREAU
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