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2021-05-25 06:41:06
Circus Days and Nights: Philip Glass' opera based on Robert Lax's circus poems to premiere in Malmö
[…] and for the last ten years has had the rights to Lax's circus poem. But it is only now that Glass has ventured into putting his vision of Lax's poetic world into practice, thanks to an innovative Swedish director. Tilde Björfors, who is renowned for incorporating circus acts into traditional theatre, is the founder and Artistic Director of the Swedish company Cirkus Cirkör. In 2016 she directed a production of Philip Glass' Satyagraha at Folkoperan, Stockholm which was a collaboration between Folkoperan and Cirkus Cirkör which was a spectacular mix of opera and circus. It was seeing Björfors' production of Satyagraha that convinced Glass that he had found his circus for his work based on Lax's poetry. Circus Days and Nights will feature a libretto by David Henry Hwang based on Lax's circus poetry, and will be staged as a collaboration between Cirkus Cirkör and Malmö Opera, directed by […]
2020-01-21 16:50:00
Usher, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 18 January 2020
[…] ultimately opts for a little too much in the way of a commercial horror film aesthetic. Multiple television screens showing the ill-fated house on fire add little to the drama. What we see too often neither resonates with nor works productively against the grain of the opera itself. There will, however, be opportunities for other productions, I am sure. In the meantime, the work having been co-commissioned by the Staatsoper Unter den Lindn and the Folkoperan Stockholm, three other companies (Opera Vlaanderen, Muziektheater Transparant, and Nanterre-Amandiers centre dramatique national) have joined with them for this co-production. There is no one way to ‘complete’, but this path has proved fruitful.
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2018-08-24 09:04:23
Composer reconfigures Debussy’s opera
Berlin’s Staatsoper Unter den Linden has scheduled the world premiere of Annelies Van Parys’s completion of Debussy’s Fall of the House of Usher on October 12. It’s a joint commission with Stockholm’s Folkoperan. Debussy left the opera unfinished in 1908. Various musicologists have attempted to complete it in Debussy’s style. Van Parys insists that her is the […]
2018-04-09 07:28:34
Fantasies can be dangerous: Mark-Anthony Turnage's 'Coraline'
Mark-Anthony Turnage: Coraline - Mary Bevan (Coraline), Kitty Whatley (Other Mother)and Ghost Children (Dominic Sedgwick, Harry Nicoll, Gillian Keith)Royal Opera (Photo ROH | Stephen Cummiskey) Mark-Anthony Turnage Coraline; Mary Bevan, Kitty Whately, Alexander Robin Baker, Britten Sinfonia, Sian Edwards: Royal Opera House at the Barbican Theatre Reviewed by Anthony Evans on 7 Apr 2018 Star rating: 3.0 (★★★) Strong performances of Mark-Anthony Turnage's new operaNeil Gaiman’s 2002 novella Coraline is a coming of age tale that has won more plaudits than you can shake a stick at and Coraline’s deliciously dark journey into another world has been adapted for film, tv, a comic book, musical and even a video game. Now in 2018 The Royal Opera in a co-production with Folkoperan, Opera de Lille, Theater Freiburg and Victorian Opera bring us Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Coraline the opera. This world premiere at the Barbican Theatre was directed by […]
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