Swedish synthpop duo The Knife debuts Opera in Copenhagen!

Just when we thought The Knife couldn’t get any weirder…they decide to go and compose an Opera!

 The Swedish synthpop duo has collaborated with the Danish theater group Hotel Pro Forma on Tomorrow, in a year known as I Morgen om et År in Danish, an 80 minute electro – opera commemorating the 150th publication anniversary of Charles Darwin’s The Origin of  Species.

The show is directed by Ralf Richardt Strøbech and Kirsten Dehlholm while hip-hop inspired Hiroaki Umeda provided the choreagraphy for the six dancers on stage. The show includes an opera singer, a pop singer, and an actor that perform The Knife’s original compositions representing Darwin, time, and nature.

” The performance is divided into two parts – analogous to the development and publications of The Origin of Species. The first part of the performance is exploratory. It concentrates on observing the underlying sequences and relationships between image, narrative, movement and music used in the performance. The second part is a synthesis of the material. It is written for three singers of different backgrounds: popular music, classical opera and the performing arts. They are the narrators and the main characters in the performance,” Hotel Pro Forma describes.

If you find yourself at a stop on Tomorrow, in a year’s tour you MUST check out what will, without a doubt, be an unforgettable and electrifying experience!

DATES

Sept. 2, 2009            Old Stage, Royal Danish Theatre, Copenhagen – WORLD PREMIERE 

Sept. 4-5, 2009         Old Stage, Royal Danish Theatre, Copenhagen

Sept. 11-12, 2009      Chateau Rouge, La Batie – Festival de Geneve

Oct. 8-9, 2009          Hellerau – European Center for the Arts Dresden, Germany

Nov. 27-28, 2009      Large Hall, The Concert Hall Århus, Denmark

Jan. 29-31, 2010       Dansens Hus, Stockholm

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~ by Kelly Mahan on September 14, 2009.