After the success of JtR1888, Magoria comes with a new project (album & live rock opera). Hollingsworth Mansion is a haunted house rock opera. The focus is on love, life & death and the gate between these worlds. The live experience of this dark story is impressive! Because of the large cast and fantastic band, but also the clothing, atmospheric and video projections and impressive light show.
The lineup is one that has more than earned its spurs in the rock/metal scene.
Band
Mark Bogert – guitar (Knight Area)
Remy Hansen – guitar
Cleem Determeijer – piano (Finch)
Harmen Kieboom – drums (Ex Libris)
Luuk van Gerven – bass guitar (Ex Libris, Valentine)
Koen Stam – keyboard (Ex Libris)
Cast/vocals
Rodney Blaze (Ayreon)
Maria Catherine (Valentine)
Jan Willem Ketelaers (Knight Area)
Nadine Plum (Skeftum)
Edward Reekers (Kayak, Ayreon)
Inge Rijnja (Saphira)
Cindy Oudshoorn (Kayak)
Demi Oosterwaal
Orch. arrangements
Matthijs Kieboom
The story of Hollingsworth Mansion:
On December 11, 1808, a major fire broke out in the enormous country house of the Hollingsworth family. Both Jefferso and his wife Lavinia are killed.
Jefferso's mother, Elizabet Hollingsworth, who had lived with them for a long time, also did not survive the fire. Jefferso and Lavinia cherished a great desire to have children, but this was never fulfilled.
More than a century later, in 1931, the Welbourne family moved into the beautiful renovated country house with their daughter Joanne. Joanne unconsciously manages to open the gate to the twilight world where the Hollingsworth family waits to fulfill their long-cherished desire to have children. Will the original residents regain control over the house? Does Howard Welbourne know how to suppress his love for Lavinia Hollingsworth, or does he choose to leave for the twilight world with Joanne and leave his wife behind? This can only be done one way...
