This recently composed opera is set in 2018, sung in English and set to classical music.
The action takes place amongst a gang of East European migrant vegetable pickers on a remote farmland in the Fens, Lincolnshire, initially in a field, later amongst their caravans.
The workers are of several East European
nationalities, mainly non-EU nations, who may therefore have passport, or visa
difficulties, and be subject to exploitation by the gangmaster Boronowski.
The story concerns the difficulties of living
and working in a gang which is isolated from everyday legality in the UK, so
that the gangmaster rules, and controls the payments to the workers. One of the
pickers falls in love with a local English farm worker that leads to the death
of the gangmaster and reveals long hidden secrets from the past.
Play and listen to the score, a video recording of a performance is available on request.
Artwork from the opera
