Like music? Like Shakespeare? Then you're in luck: Antony, Natalie Merchant and Liz Fraser are going to be contributing musical arrangements for the Bard's sonnets as part of a Royal Shakespeare Company celebration and performance of the complete works. The BBC has it:
Antony and the Johnsons and Natalie Merchant are among the cult acts who have been enlisted by the RSC for a show inspired by Shakespeare's sonnets.
Liz Fraser from the Cocteau Twins will also contribute to the show, entitled Nothing Like The Sun.
The artists have been asked to compose music to accompany a chosen sonnet, to be performed by an eight-piece chamber orchestra from Opera North.
The show will be staged over two nights at Stratford-upon-Avon next February.
It will then go on tour to Nottingham, Manchester, Gateshead and Leeds in March.
The production forms part of the Royal Shakespeare Company's Complete Works festival, one of the most ambitious projects in the company's history.
According to an RSC spokeswoman, the score will straddle pop, contemporary and classical music genres.
The second half of the show will comprise a 40-minute composition by British composer Gavin Bryars based around seven of Shakespeare's sonnets.
*(see sonnet 14)
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