Cats Göteborg - Jellicle Ball

Описание: Göteborgs Opera production of Cats (Sweden).

Start date: 9th September 2006
End date: 24th February 2007

The show took place in the amusement park instead of junkyard. So e.g. Skimbleshanks was a cat from the roller-coaster train etc.

The choreography was also very different. This ball sometimes reminds acrobatic rock'n'roll rather than dancing that everybody knows from the original productions.

The most significant factor of this production was the music that was performed by the opera orchestra. It was completely new and fantastic experience after all those small-sized orchestras of many productions. Sometimes I catch myself rather listening to this ball than watching it.

I'm sorry for the picture "quality" and for the 3:02-3:06 lag due to technical limitations. It is impossible to recognize each character, but at least two of them are really significant - those black and white cats who do the most crazy acrobatics. They are Tantomile and Coricopat and they were circus performers (it explains everything :-)).

You can find more pictures at Göteborgs Opera page:
http://www.opera.se/item.aspx?id=3774

I don't own any copyright for this video, I just wanted to give an idea of very original and different approach to this musical.