Under the Deep

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Ekvipagemestervej 10,
1438 København

Under the Deep

Description

Pop meets opera and gets a love child in ballet shoes. Join a journey through three art forms - and the turning points of life - on the Opera's Main Stage Under the Deep is a different and sensuous theatre experience that knocked the audience off their feet at its premiere in 2024. The production was made in close collaboration between the worlds of ballet, drama and music, and is a tribute to the light and the dark forces of existence, told through three acts - birth, sexuality and death. In church we have a hymn book that can help us through life's big events, but in Under the Deep the composer Jeanett Albeck has made her own pop bible consisting of well-known hits and newly composed songs, performed live on stage by, among others, five elderly opera singers and five trombonists. In front of them, five travellers set out into the world to find a meaningful role in life. Through dance and song they grapple with life's great turning points, the disappointments, the urges, the grief and the realisation that growing up also means letting the perfect world die. Under the direction of theatre director Anja Behrens and set designer Christian Albrechtsen, the choreographers Sebastian Kloborg and Oliver Marcus Starpov have set steps to music that speaks to both the nostalgic and the dreamer. The result is neither ballet, drama nor a classical concert, but a fusion that opens the hatch to the deepest emotions wide open. Recommended from age 12