http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12770942 Damon Albarn to star in new stage show Albarn returns to the Manchester festival four years after staging the premiere of his first opera Monkey Damon Albarn has written and will star in a stage show about 16th Century alchemist, astrologer and spy John Dee. Damon寫出一部關於16世紀身兼煉金術、占星術師以及間諜的John Dee的劇作，並且會參 與演出. A musical work based on Elizabeth I's medical and scientific adviser, Doctor Dee will have its premiere in July at the Manchester International Festival. 會在七月於Manchester International Festival首演. It will then be staged at the home of the English National Opera as part of London's Cultural Olympiad programme. The Manchester festival will also feature the debut of Bjork's new show during a three-week residency. Other original productions will be created for the event by immersive theatre company Punchdrunk, film-makers The Quay Brothers, comedian Victoria Wood and performance artist Marina Abramovic. Manchester International Festival director Alex Poots said the event, which started in 2007 and takes place every two years, was "a home for major artists to realise their most ambitious projects". Albarn's Chinese opera Monkey: Journey To The West was a highlight of the first Manchester International Festival four years ago and the Blur and Gorillaz singer will present his next production at the city's Palace Theatre. 繼上齣Monkey: Journey to the West之後再度演出新作. Albarn did not appear in Monkey but will perform in Doctor Dee. 在上齣劇作中沒有演出，但這齣則會有演出的部份. The show has been co-produced by the English National Opera and the London 2012 Festival and will be staged at the London Coliseum next year. 和the English National Opera還有London 2012 festival協同製作. It will be directed by Rufus Norris, who staged Don Giovanni at the ENO last year and whose Broadway revival of Les Liaisons Dangereuses was nominated for five Tony Awards in 2008. 導演Rufus Norris，曾獲得五項Tony Awards提名. "It will be a big, spectacular show," Mr Poots said. "I know that Damon's passionate about it and he's already written some incredibly beautiful songs, some anthemic songs." Manchester International Festival director Mr. Poots信心滿滿. Bjork will launch the Manchester International Festival on 30 June with a show based on her new album Biophilia. The project combines her interests in music, science and nature and is billed as a "multi-media project encompassing music, apps, internet, installations and live shows". There will be an app for each song and the singer has invented a range of new instruments for the shows, including a 30-foot (nine-metre) pendulum that harnesses the earth's gravitational pull to create musical patterns. She will perform six times over three weeks at the Campfield Market Hall. Elsewhere, the Quay Brothers, celebrated for their dark, disjointed films and animations, will team up with Russian-born violinist Alina Ibragimova to stage chamber music in a promenade setting. Punchdrunk will return after creating the acclaimed theatrical experience It Felt Like A Kiss with Damon Albarn at the last festival. Their new show, The Crash of the Elysium, will be the company's first for children. Amadou and Mariam, a blind musical duo from Mali, will attempt to stage the world's first concert in total darkness, while comedian Johnny Vegas will present a new theatre show. Victoria Wood is writing and directing That Day We Sang, about the 1920s Manchester Children's Choir, which will open at the Manchester Opera House. 'Artistic powerhouse' Hollywood actor Willem Dafoe is to star in The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic alongside the Serbian-born performance artist. The production will feature music written and performed by Antony Hegarty from the Mercury-prize winning Antony and The Johnsons. The festival will also involve rapper Snoop Dogg, singer Sinead O'Connor, artist John Gerrard, the Halle Orchestra and French composer Mark Andre. Manchester City Council's executive member for culture and leisure, Councillor Mike Amesbury, said the festival "makes a massive contribution to the cultural offering of our great city and has helped establish us on the world stage as a leading artistic powerhouse". --

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