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IN THE HOTHOUSE 1x7 Minutes

In the Hothouse

Director/Writer Annie Bradley's IN THE HOTHOUSE fuses the powerful choreography of Julia Sasso and the ethereal voice of Fides Krucker accompanied by Eve Egoyan in a cinematic feast of music, movement and design. This tragic tale of Richard Wagner's affair with German poet Mathilde Wessendonck, and the subsequent demise of his marriage to Mina Wagner, is set to the most haunting of Wagner's Wessendonck Lieder Songs, Im Treibhaus (In the Hothouse). Shot in black and white by award-winning DOP Marcus Elliott, designed by Debra Hanson (Stratford Festival). IN THE HOTHOUSE is an emotive journey through love and betrayal.

Director/Writer

Annie Bradley

Words

Mathilde Wessendonck

Choreography

Julia Sasso

Music

Richard Wagner

Recorded by Fides Krucker (Voice) and Eve Egoyan (Piano)