{"id":287,"date":"2024-04-03T19:44:16","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T19:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freedomopera.co.uk\/?page_id=287"},"modified":"2024-04-04T08:58:38","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T08:58:38","slug":"passport-to-freedom","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/freedomopera.co.uk\/index.php\/passport-to-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Passport to Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"790\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/freedomopera.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Passport-to-Freedom_poster-2022-790x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freedomopera.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Passport-to-Freedom_poster-2022-790x1024.jpg 790w, https:\/\/freedomopera.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Passport-to-Freedom_poster-2022-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/freedomopera.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Passport-to-Freedom_poster-2022-768x995.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freedomopera.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Passport-to-Freedom_poster-2022.jpg 1245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 790px) 100vw, 790px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left\">This recently composed opera is set in 2018, sung\nin English and set to classical music. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The action takes place amongst a gang of East\nEuropean migrant vegetable pickers on a remote farmland in the Fens,\nLincolnshire, initially in a field, later amongst their caravans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The workers are of several East European\nnationalities, mainly non-EU nations, who may therefore have passport, or visa\ndifficulties, and be subject to exploitation by the gangmaster Boronowski.\n\nThe story concerns the difficulties of living\nand working in a gang which is isolated from everyday legality in the UK, so\nthat the gangmaster rules, and controls the payments to the workers. One of the\npickers falls in love with a local English farm worker that leads to the death\nof the gangmaster and reveals long hidden secrets from the past. <br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Play and listen to the score, a video recording of a performance is available on request.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video aligncenter\"><video height=\"1080\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1080;\" width=\"1920\" controls src=\"https:\/\/freedomopera.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Passport-to-Freedom_Overture-Sc1_V2.2_for-website-only_18-July-2021.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption>Scene 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video aligncenter\"><video height=\"1080\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1080;\" width=\"1920\" controls src=\"https:\/\/freedomopera.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Passport-to-Freedom_Sc2_V2.2_for-website-only_18-July-2021.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1080\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1080;\" width=\"1920\" controls src=\"https:\/\/freedomopera.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Passport-to-Freedom_Sc3_V2.2_for-website-only_18-July-2021.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video aligncenter\"><video height=\"1080\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1080;\" width=\"1920\" controls src=\"https:\/\/freedomopera.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Passport-to-Freedom_Sc4_V2.2-for-website-only_18-July-2021.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Artwork from the opera<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"775\" src=\"https:\/\/freedomopera.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Pic-3A-Scene-2Bjpg-1024x775.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freedomopera.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Pic-3A-Scene-2Bjpg-1024x775.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/freedomopera.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Pic-3A-Scene-2Bjpg-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freedomopera.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Pic-3A-Scene-2Bjpg-768x581.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freedomopera.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Pic-3A-Scene-2Bjpg.jpg 1486w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"787\" src=\"https:\/\/freedomopera.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Picture4-1024x787.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freedomopera.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Picture4-1024x787.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/freedomopera.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Picture4-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freedomopera.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Picture4-768x590.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freedomopera.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Picture4.jpg 1464w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"941\" height=\"689\" src=\"https:\/\/freedomopera.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Untitled-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-86\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freedomopera.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Untitled-1.png 941w, https:\/\/freedomopera.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Untitled-1-300x220.png 300w, https:\/\/freedomopera.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Untitled-1-768x562.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 941px) 100vw, 941px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-287","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedomopera.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedomopera.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedomopera.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freedomopera.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freedomopera.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/freedomopera.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321,"href":"https:\/\/freedomopera.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/287\/revisions\/321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedomopera.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}