ADIOS - the ambiguity of alienation // Premiere at the 'Nationale Opera & Ballet' in Amsterdam

Описание: Opera in 3 acts

"Adios is about the ambiguity of alienation. Departing from personal accounts of feeling alienated from groups, what the makers found was that this feeling of unbelonging was not clearly negative or positive. Some had experienced it as a form of empowerment. For them, falling outside the logic of social dynamics had revealed just how absurd it would be to comply with them. The critical distance of alienation had offered them a way out of these constrictions. Others, on the other hand, felt that it had been lonely and stated that psychological effects of being an outsider had left them wanting more than anything to fit the mold and belong.
In the opera, we follow an individual who is faced with the internal struggle between these two sentiments. Finding himself alienated from a group, he embarks on a reaction on whether to find a way to adapt or see the experience as liberating. When, finally, he decides to try and join the group he is confronted with the necessity to leave something behind in the process of belonging."


Composer:
Béla Braack

Libretto:
Jasmine Karimova

Directing:
Joelina Spiess

Choreography:
Amisha Kumra

Dramaturgy:
Goya van den Berg

Scenography:
Lou Seidel

Production:
Fien Tittse & Wouter Stoppelenburg


Ensemble -
Conductor:
Sebastiaan van Yperen

Assistent:
Drummado Weijnhamer

Repetitor:
Kris van der Plas

Sound Engineer:
Finn Cooney

Countertenor:
Arturo Den Hartog

Mezzosopran:
Femke Hulsman

Clarinet:
Alberto Sanches Garcia

Tuba:
Sigurd Brevik

Percussion:
Tomek Herisz

Cello:
Diana Sanz Pascual,
Emma Warmelink

Spoken Word:
Jasmine Karimova

Dancers:
Amisha Kumra,
Marilou Fortuné,
Meriç Tuncer,
Maira Darja Horvath,
Uhr’lice Guillaume,
Uhrtisohr Rosaria,
Harvey Burke-Hamilton
Patrick Bayha,
Ugnė Irena Laurinavičiūtė


Special thanks to -
Sjaron Minailo,
Meric Artac,
Nikki van der Linden,
Eva van Dieën,
Maaike Ophuijsen,
Puck Rudolph,
Ger Bouwhuis,
Jolanda Borjeson,
Pim Schmitz,
Gerco van Veenen
Willem Jeths,
Wim Henderickx,
Laurent Peckels


Staged at -
Nationale Opera & Ballet, Amsterdam
Production:
Fien Tittse & Wouter Stoppelenburg


Ensemble -
Conductor:
Sebastiaan van Yperen

Assistent:
Drummado Weijnhamer

Repetitor:
Kris van der Plas

Sound Engineer:
Finn Cooney

Countertenor:
Arturo Den Hartog

Mezzosopran:
Femke Hulsman

Clarinet:
Alberto Sanches Garcia

Tuba:
Sigurd Brevik

Percussion:
Tomek Herisz

Cello:
Diana Sanz Pascual,
Emma Warmelink

Spoken Word:
Jasmine Karimova

Dancers:
Amisha Kumra
Marilou Fortuné,
Meriç Tuncer,
Maira Darja Horvath,
Uhr’lice Guillaume,
Uhrtisohr Rosaria,
Harvey Burke-Hamilton
Patrick Bayha,
Ugnė Irena Laurinavičiūtė


Special thanks to -
Sjaron Minailo,
Meric Artac,
Nikki van der Linden,
Eva van Dieën,
Maaike Ophuijsen,
Puck Rudolph,
Ger Bouwhuis,
Jolanda Borjeson,
Pim Schmitz,
Gerco van Veenen
Willem Jeths,
Wim Henderickx,
Laurent Peckels


Staged at -
Nationale Opera & Ballet, Amsterdam