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Dr Ox's Experiment
for English National Opera
- Set Designer
- Michael Levine
- Costume Designer
- Sandy Powell
- Director
- Atom Egoyan
- Composer
- Gavin Bryars
- Libretto
- Blake Morrison
Based on the novella by Jules Verne. First performed on 15 June 1998. In the experiment of the title, Doctor Ox introduces a gas into a sedate Flemish village, with the result that everything becomes speeded up and chaotic. The opera explores the conflict between Ox's advocacy of modernity and scientific and political change, and Ygène's belief that liberation and the accompanying loss of the traditional rhythms of life might bring unhappiness.