A work that celebrates the human capacity to change her conditions and envision a new world with poetry and music. In embodied songs, opera singers perform new and old music with custom-built sensor technology in a space charged with voices and with musical wires strung from floor to ceiling. The work is a crossover between opera, oratorio and choreography – where the movement of bodies creates accompaniment and visual components.
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CONCEPT, MUSIC AND TEXTUAL COMPILATION:
Carl Unander-Scharin
CONCEPT, CHOREOGRAPHY AND REGIE:
Åsa Unander-Scharin
ADDITIONAL MUSIC:
Georg Friederich Händel, Claudio Monteverdi, Henry Purcell, Richard Wagner
TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPEMENT AND INTERACTION DESIGN:
Carl Unander-Scharin, Åsa Unander-Scharin, Ludvig Elblaus
COSTUME:
Mats Lindberg
TECHNICAL PRODUCER:
Jimmy Svensson
PERFORMERS 2013:
Lisa Gustafsson (soprano), Alexandra Zetterström Büchel (soprano), Maria Sanner Konvicka (alto), Staffan Liljas (bass-baritone)
PERFORMERS 2014:
Emilia Feldt (soprano), Annastina Malm (mezzo), Annika Hudak (alto), Erika Tordéus (mezzo)
STAGE DESIGN AND VIDEO:
Lene Juhl & Mark Viktov
PRODUCED BY
University College of Opera, Stockholm
PHOTO:
Martin Hellström, Andrea Felvégi
PERFORMANCES:
Reaktorhallen, KTH, 2013
Cape Town Opera, South Africa, 2013
Scenkonstbiennalen, Jönköping, Sweden, 2013
Liszt Academy, Budapest, Hungary, 2014