The Nubian Word for Flowers/Rainbird
The set for the opera was itself a living, organic phenomenon; it functioned as an additional character in the opera. IONE sat near the moveable stage-flats; her back was to the audience, yet she was one of us. Hovering above the stage set were great canvas triangles " mildly billowed faluka sails " on which IONE projected Victorian and Edwardian era images of the British Empire in all its beauty and its ugliness. Pr…