Interesting interview with composer James MacMillan in today's times2. Richard Morrison interviews MacMillan about his new opera, The Sacrifice, which opens at the Millennium Centre, Cardiff and has this to say of MacMillan's works:
"MacMillan’s pieces shout of revolution, liberation, resurrection. They deal in living hells: a helicopter attack on an El Salvador village; the anguish of the mothers of the Disappeared; Dunblane; the deaths of medieval saints or (in his celebrated The Confession of Isobel Gowdie) the burning of women deemed witches. Or they invest the everyday with a mystic, even mythic, quality. Only MacMillan would turn childbirth into a 50-minute choral whirlwind. Or they blaze out his fervent Roman Catholicism – his belief (desperately unfashionable in arty circles) that the power of the Holy Spirit can change lives."
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