Untold – Special Screening

Winner of the George Butterworth Prize 2020, Untold is an anti-opera by Alex Ho exploring Chinese identities through music and movement.

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Join Tangram for a special screening of Untold, Alex Ho’s award-winning stagework premiered in November 2019 at Hackney Round Chapel by Julia Cheng, Keith Pun, and Tangram.

Adapting the Chinese folkstory of ‘Ye Xian’, Untold shows the vitality and heterogeneity of Chinese transnational experience, demonstrating how it can reinvent musical genres such as opera as well as shed light on how Chinese diaspora navigate the complex cultural spaces in diverse and unique ways.

Untold was awarded the George Butterworth Prize 2020 for “an outstanding new work” and its creation was supported by Sound and Music, Arts Council England, Help Musicians UK, Britten-Pears Foundation, RVW Trust, PRS Foundation, The London Community Foundation, and The Cockayne Foundation.