The Lighthouse

A stark, haunting chamber opera that unfolds slowly, wrapping you in isolation and unease as it circles an unexplained vanishing.

Directed by

Elaine Tyler-Hall

Genres

Music, Horror

Starring

James Oxley, Damian Thantrey, Jonathan Best

Overview

The Lighthouse is a chamber opera with words and music by Peter Maxwell Davies. The scenario was inspired by a true story. In December 1900 a lighthouse supply ship called the Hesperus, based in Stromness, Orkney, went on its routine tour of duty to the Flannan Isles in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. The lighthouse was empty - all three beds and the table looked as if they had been left in a hurry and the lamp, throughout, was in perfect working order, but the men had disappeared into thin air.

How it feels

Eerie, dark, tense and melancholic. Slow-burning and demanding.

About

Mystery, isolation, death, fate

Content

Mild violence. No gore, sexual content or swearing.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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