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HOLD YOUR HORSES

Virtual and real space, act and entr’acte, fictional and factual identity all clash at the ‘Place de l’opéra aperta’. Voices, resonances, sounds, screams, orders, murmur and singing spring from the noise of technology and ecology, dictatorship and democracy. These concepts are what Hold Your Horses builds upon: the brutal confrontation with a fragmentary world that balances between reality and virtual reality. In the libretto, loosely bases on Gene Sharp’s 198 Methods of Nonviolent Action, assemblies of nature and culture flirt with diva’s and avatars.

‘A HORSE! A HORSE! MY KINGDOM FOR A HORSE!’,

…King Richard III shouts hopelessly.

‘KIFAYA!’ (ENOUGH!) is the (provisional) answer of the Arab Spring, spread by cell phone recordings. Great idols and narratives end tragically in flash news, while ordinary people in DIY fashion themselves into heroes and adore virtual stars. The moral of the story?

Vulnerability reigns when life’s antagonisms break the art of the code in the opera.

ChampdActions Grand Opera is doomed to an Opera Aperta.

CREDITS

 

  • Production : ChampdAction

  • Music, concept en direction : Serge Verstockt

  • Organisation: Opera XXI

  • Coproduction with: ChampdAction, deSingel, Concertgebouw Brugge

  • Scenography: Werner Kurosawa

  • Stage manager: Evy Vancalbergh

  • Electronics ChampdAction/Studio

  • Sound technician: Simon Vander Beken, Mark Dedecker

  • Live electronics, sound design: Benjamin Van Esser

  • Video, light: Koen Goossens

  • Double bass, film, synthesizer: Ann Eysermans

  • Harp, singer: Astrin Phospora

  • Saxophone, singer: Audrey Lauro

  • Guitar, voice, moonerchoir kapelmeister: Ko Kowalsky

  • Violin, iPad, gamer, Maiku controller: Takao Hyakutome

  • Saxophone, voice: Peter Verdonck

  • Double bass, chainsaw: Peter Jacquemyn

  • Voice, double bass Frederic: Lyenn Jacques

  • Trumpet: Thomas Piet

  • Piano: Yutaka Oya

  • Drums: Karen Willems

  • Singer: Rolande Van der Paal

  • Dance: Olympe Tits

  • Philosopher: Jean Paul Van Bendegem

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