Ian Wilson has received an Arts Council award to create a multi-media piece.

Described by the composer as "rather like an opera with no singers", Una Santa Oscura has been inspired by aspects of the life of the 12th-century nun, mystic and composer, Hildegard of Bingen, revered as 'the Sybil of the Rhine'.

The 45-minute work, which is commissioned under the Arts Council's Projects: New Work award, will be directed by Tom Creed, and will include live violin, performed by Ioana Petcu-Colan, against an electronic backdrop that Wilson will create in collaboration with composer Jürgen Simpson.

In performance, Una Santa Oscura will also include costumes, stage design and live video projection.

Posted: 12 December 2008