With a smile and a tear, this music theatre production by KamerOperaProject puts three short, ironic operas from the period between 1929 and 1953 in the full light of our current news stories.
At the heart of the performance is Die Flut, a small opera by Berlin composer Boris Blacher (1904-1975), the first new opera to be staged in Germany after the Second World War, on 14 March 1947. Also staged are a very short, comic opera by Karl Amadeus Hartmann and songs and scenes from Blacher's Abstrakte Oper nr. 1.
At 19.15, Paul Oomen will give an introduction on High Tide! in the small hall of the Compagnietheater.
The production is accompanied by a number of films, talks and recitals on 13, 14 and 15 August at the Compagnietheater and the Goethe Institute. These fringe events will highlight Blacher's vocal music and the developments in Berlin in the period between 1946 to 1948.
Vloed! is a co-production by Opera in Progress, Cantina Vocaal and the Grachtenfestival