Melodrama #3 / Sacre: Det Første Offer

23. Oct

19:30

Dirigent: Geoffrey Paterson / Skuespillere: Simon Bennebjerg & Zaki Youssef / Sangere: Sine Bundgaard, sopran & Laura Helene Hansen, sopran / Instruktør og manuskript: Christian Lollike / Komponist: Steingrimur Rohloff / Dramaturg: Anders Thrue Djurslev / Tegninger: Halfdan Pisket / Videoscenografi: Vertigo

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Igor Stravinskij: Vårofferet (Le Sacre du printemps)

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Melodrama #3 / Sacre: The First Sacrifice

Dirigent: Geoffrey Paterson / Skuespillere: Simon Bennebjerg & Zaki Youssef / Sangere: Sine Bundgaard, sopran & Laura Helene Hansen, sopran / Instruktør og manuskript: Christian Lollike / Komponist: Steingrimur Rohloff / Dramaturg: Anders Thrue Djurslev / Tegninger: Halfdan Pisket / Videoscenografi: Vertigo

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Director Christian Lollike and composer Steingrímur Rohloff are behind this year’s Melodrama, which takes as its starting point one of the best-known sacrifice stories in world history: the story of God testing Abraham’s faith by asking him to sacrifice his son. It is a story that appears in both the Bible and the Quran. In the Bible it is Isaac who is to be sacrificed. In the Quran it is Ishmael. The same story, two different versions. In Christian Lollike’s interpretation the two brothers now stand face to face and try to find the truth about their shared past. Melodrama is a symphonic total experience on stage and screen. A story told by actors, symphony orchestra, singers and live drawings alike. In short: concert, theatre and film in one experience. The music consists of Igor Stravinskij’s grand masterpiece Le Sacre du Printemps ( The Rite of Spring), whose two legendary movements are framed by a newly written work in three movements by the acclaimed Icelandic-German composer Steingrímur Rohloff, whose works have been performed in more than 25 countries around the world. The award-winning draughtsman Halfdan Pisket, who is known for his expressionist, sombre motifs in, among others, the Dansker trilogy , creates new drawings for the performance, which the scenography collective Vertigo projects and animates on large screens in the concert hall; a living, visual universe around the orchestra. On stage we will – besides Copenhagen Phil – experience Simon Bennebjerg and Zaki Youssef in the roles of Isaac and Ishmael, and the sopranos Sine Bundgaard and Laura Helene Hansen as their mothers, Hagar and Sarah.

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