After its premiere at the Aldeburgh Festival (UK) I’m really over the moon to be returning to London to present the ‘staged’ version of Chronicle 时•录 at LSO St Luke’s with SANSARA in association with TANGRAM. I think it is a very powerful and moving project, that gives voice to ancient Chinese Women Poets, and presents their words (in translation) at a time where we need voices like theirs to be heard more than ever. Despite the air miles involved, I would gladly travel again and again to see this project continue to travel.
More from the SANSARA website below including tickets and information
We’re collaborating with artist collective Tangram to present our first large scale co-commission from composers Alex Ho and Rockey Sun Keting.
Chronicle 时•录 is an interdiscplinary choral-theatre work, tracing the voices of six women poets across a millennium of Chinese history.
Through war, exile, love, loss and displacement, their poems record not only personal emotion, but the fragile continuity of culture, memory and survival.
PERFORMANCES
30 August 2026
CHRONICLE 时•录 | LSO ST LUKE'S - MATINÉE
31 August 2026
REVIEWS
“Celebrated as one of the UK’s finest choirs, SANSARA was exquisitely polished” - Flora Willson
COLLECTIVE
SANSARA
Fiona Fraser, Áine Smith, Clover Willis
Amy Blythe, Rosie Parker, Anna Semple
Oscar Golden Lee, Jack Granby, Joe Taylor
Jonathan Howard, Andrew O’Connor, Ben Tomlin
Tom Herring — artistic director, conductor, producer
TANGRAM
Alex Ho – composer, director
Rockey Sun Keting – composer, director
Ke Peng – set + visual designer
Chang Meng – visual designer
Claudia Huang – producer
Original poetry translations by Yilin Wang
Additional text and dramaturgy by Tangram / Alex Ho & Rockey Sun Keting
