contribution # 2 | NEWSREAL | an audio visual chamber opera in which an incessant flow of information tries to find its way in the life of a soprano

concept, composition & video : falk hübner / voice & performance : cora schmeiser

 

 

[fh] internet in our pockets, the newspaper in our bags, the tv in the train. _news has never been that close to us before. _but do we actually manage to process all that information in one single day? _and do we finally know more since information became that easily available?

a classic chamber opera rapidly changes into a complex interaction between singing, images and - literally - today’s news. _cora schmeiser sings short stories of ‘news-characters’ like the iranian martyr mehrdad azizollahi and the wife of the chinese dissident liu xiaobo; stories that gradually intertwine and thus turn into an overwhelming torrent of news that goes right through the singer, making her stagger, shimmer, doubt, laugh and fall. _the music features an intriguing mix of jazz-sounds, blended with electronics and classical singing

 

(photo carina hesper)

 

(photo carina hesper)

 

newsreal is a zeebelt-production supported by the city of the hague, stage ocw and artez conservatory / internship : nadya van ’t hoff