Dan Strange
Terrible Lips - composed by Kate Whitley, scenario and libretto by Finn Beames
On Friday 17th June in a large, condemned warehouse space, remarkably well-hidden considering its proximity to Cambridge city centre, opera company Carmen Elektra is hosting its third ‘opera club-night’. Two new works by local composers, one of which is a world premiere, were being staged within a night of DJ sets and general ambience, with the intention of making the very most of a remarkable, and conclusively doomed, performance setting.
The two works presented are:
TERRIBLE LIPS by Kate Whitley, with a scenario and libretto by Finn Beames
A sci-fi dance opera about the tragedy of matter. Ssol, a glamorous computer scientist, discovers a frequency that will destroy her own physical form and break into the next dimension. She builds an army of hysterical dancing bodies: as they stamp and scream the particles disperse, and the Universe begins to tear apart.
and
A SUDDEN CARTOGRAPHY OF SONG by Jeremy Thurlow, with a libretto and video by Alistair Appleton (who presents The Night Shift)
A video opera for narrator, musicians and electronics first performed at the Spitalfields Festival. A multi-sensory journey into realms of super-linguistic sound and super-sonic language, navigating and atomising the aural landscape of deep summer.
It was a really good night
Go see > carmen-elektra.com/about.html
Terrible Lips - composed by Kate Whitley, scenario and libretto by Finn Beames
On Friday 17th June in a large, condemned warehouse space, remarkably well-hidden considering its proximity to Cambridge city centre, opera company Carmen Elektra is hosting its third ‘opera club-night’. Two new works by local composers, one of which is a world premiere, were being staged within a night of DJ sets and general ambience, with the intention of making the very most of a remarkable, and conclusively doomed, performance setting.
The two works presented are:
TERRIBLE LIPS by Kate Whitley, with a scenario and libretto by Finn Beames
A sci-fi dance opera about the tragedy of matter. Ssol, a glamorous computer scientist, discovers a frequency that will destroy her own physical form and break into the next dimension. She builds an army of hysterical dancing bodies: as they stamp and scream the particles disperse, and the Universe begins to tear apart.
and
A SUDDEN CARTOGRAPHY OF SONG by Jeremy Thurlow, with a libretto and video by Alistair Appleton (who presents The Night Shift)
A video opera for narrator, musicians and electronics first performed at the Spitalfields Festival. A multi-sensory journey into realms of super-linguistic sound and super-sonic language, navigating and atomising the aural landscape of deep summer.
It was a really good night
Go see > carmen-elektra.com/about.html