Category: Produktioner

På ett kafé i en storstad blir tre främlingar instängda när det plötsligt utlyses allmänt utegångsförbud. Utanför pågår något. Ingen vet riktigt vad. Rykten avlöser varandra. En brand. En sprängning. Något slags upplopp. Vad är sant?
Personerna på kaféet söker desperat efter information samtidigt som de tvingas förhålla sig till vad som sker utanför, till varandra, och till de känslor som uppstår när det som aldrig skulle kunna hända plötsligt händer.

Kafé är NewOpera CO:s tionde produktion. Verket är en kammaropera som tar utgångspunkt i det mellanmänskliga mötet i en krissituation där något hotar verkligheten så som karaktärerna känner den. På Atalante gavs verket i en första konsertant version i september 2021.

I maj 2022 kommer NewOpera CO att jobba vidare med Kafé och utveckla musiken och valda delar av dramaturgin.

 
Säg Till! – Speak out! lifts our times big questions:
What is democracy? How is money created? How do you know something is true? Is there reasons to be afraid? Why does inequality increase in the world? How do you mitigate hatred? Where are the hopes for the future?

Speak out! wants to lift some of the phenomena that have dominated recent years politics around the world, and made many wonder how safe our democracy really is. The project is a collaboration where Saga Björklund Jönsson is brand new in the ensemble. With background as a artist in the Musicals, she is active in Bataljonen, The Mainstream, and works as a composer and director in various contexts.

Speak out! will be played for adults and school pupils from high school and up. After the performance, there will be audience talki.

Saga Björklund Jönsson, song, action
Karin Wiberg, song, violin, action
Emma Augustsson, song, cello, action
Niklas Rydén, song, piano, action

Text and music by Niklas Rydén and the ensemble

Team
Artistic Direction – Niklas Rydén
Text, music – Niklas Rydén, Saga Björklund Jönsson and the ensemble
Staging – Ensemblen
Directing assistens – Anna Ulén
Choreographic assistans – Soledad Howe
Producer – Emelie Fröjdendahl

Saga Björklund Jönsson is a new employee at NewOpera CO and is leading the work on Säg till! together with Niklas Rydén. She is a singer, composer, director and one of the driving forces in Teater Bataljonen, which recently staged Jurassic Park at Storan. Saga is also part of the group The Mainstream and has worked with vulnerable groups in the project Röst.

Alexandra Nilsson is also new to NewOpera CO. She has her background in folk music, where she explores the role of the cello in the Swedish violin tradition. She is also active in Butlers of Glen Avenue and the Danish folk music septet Trolska Polska.

Karin Wiberg has been involved in all NewOpera CO’s productions since 2011. She is a freelance violinist, including in chamber music with a focus on music by female composers. Karin is also a composer and improviser, often in stage contexts. She is active in the groups Stensöta, Kristall, hahmo, Vråk and Trio Phantasm.

Speak out! did premiere 20 November at 19 at Teater Cinnober. Length 60-90 min. Also played 21 and 22 November. Spring 2018 it was played at Atalante.

 
 
Säg till! from Cinnober Teater 2017
Trailer

Film from first rehearsals in Mars 2017

 

Cabaret Kosmos was created in 2014 in a collaboration between a colorful and diverse group of performing artists. Choreographer Jannine Rivel and NewOpera CO’s Niklas Ryden came to talk about Jannines grandfather, the famous clown Charlie Rivel, and decided to create an art cabaret, including a remixed clown number of Charlie Rivel.

The ensemble consists of Michele Collins, David Sperling Bolander, Jannine Rivel, Clara Gustavsson Karin Wiberg and Niklas Ryden, as well as musicians Magnus Boqvist Victor Olofsson and Georgia Wartel. In the set of Teater Aftonstjärnan in 2015, it was Johanna Ekholm on bass instead of Georgia.

Cabaret Kosmos came to have a space theme that inspired set design and atmosphere. Otherwise, we worked together in the ensemble to develop various actions, dances and the whole format. Niklas Ryden and David Sperling Bolander wrote the lyrics. Jannine Rivel choreographed and created with David a new clown concept. Michele worked out her actions with texts by Gertrude Stein. This is how we describe Cabaret Kosmos:

A group of people have left the earth. During their cosmic journey they look back and remember how it was in the earth, both what was good and what was bad.
With Michele Collins, performance art queen in Gothenburg, David Sperling Bolander, the exceptional scene-music artist, Niklas Ryden, creator of nyopera and Variety Atalante, Clara Gustavsson, the vocalist that is cut out of a thirty’s film, Jannine Rivel, choreographer with roots in both modern dance and circus, Karin Wiberg, violinist and stage artist who appears in many contexts.
Together with the orchestra, they take you to the space center of Kos-Tikk where it is always night and the cabaret run around the clock. It’s nasty lyrics, space music, beautiful vocal harmonies, remixed clown numbers of Charlie Rivel, Django Reinhardt, modern dance, strange noises, dogs on small carts, texts by Gertrude Stein, space debris and a string of unforgettable ballads.

Cabaret Kosmos has been played at Atalante in 2014 and at Teater Aftonstjärnan in 2015 and received support from the Västra Götaland Kulturnämnd twice. Cabaret Kosmos will continue playing 2016-17.

 

See film from Atalante 2014 (better sound)
 
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See film from Teater Aftonstjärnan 2015
 
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