A CHILD OF OUR TIME (2007)

Ishwar Maharaj, Susan Gritton & ENO Chorus


'Timothy Robinson and Ishwar Maharaj on an operatic journey from darkness into light.'

'Only a slim young man (Ishwar Maharaj) advertising Y-fronts remained to take the burden of Tippett's portentous vision'

Ishwar Maharaj & The ENO Chorus





"Gym bunny in Y-Fronts."























'When things turned nasty, the crowd stripped and killed a group of refugees; one young man, (Ishwar Maharaj) clad only in a pair of dingy underpants, survives and becomes the young man who commits the assassination which is at the heart of the oratorio. But he also represents a sacrificial victim. At the end of part 2, after the assassination, he is buried only to be reborn with a tree at the opening of part 3.'