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OperaGenesis develops an absurdist opera based on a play by Ionesco
Sunday, 20 August 2006
In its new initiative to find original approaches to opera and music theatre for the 21st century and also new audiences for the lyric stage, OperaGenesis has worked with French composer Jean Philippe Calvin to complete a one-act, absurdist piece based on the Eugene Ionesco play, La Cantatrice Chauve or The Bald Soprano.
In its new initiative to find original approaches to opera and music theatre for the 21st century and also new audiences for the lyric stage, OperaGenesis has worked with French composer Jean Philippe Calvin to complete a one-act, absurdist piece based on the Eugene Ionesco play, La Cantatrice Chauve or The Bald Soprano. Calvin has written an introductory explanation of what he is doing exclusively for the Genesis Foundation web site to preview this work, looking forward as he is to completing the opera for workshops and a presentation in London this Autumn.
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