{"id":125,"date":"2012-02-09T00:40:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T23:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newopera.se\/?p=125"},"modified":"2025-06-16T19:47:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T18:47:37","slug":"cirkus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newopera.se\/en\/cirkus\/","title":{"rendered":"Cirkus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newopera.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Cirkus-press_090.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-272 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/newopera.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Cirkus-press_090.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newopera.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Cirkus-press_090.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/newopera.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Cirkus-press_090-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: revert;\"><br \/>\n\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: revert;\">Cirkus is New Opera Co&#8217;s third work. It began to be written in autumn 2010 and premiered in the spring of 2012. With Cirkus Niklas Ryd\u00e9n wanted to try the monologue form and examine new-opera ability to credibly convey and carry strong melodramatic feelings of existential nature.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Cirkus is about a woman who has experienced losing everything several times. She grew up in the circus. Parents were trapeze stars but died in an accident. She abandoned her own trapeze career. She married a knife thrower and became his target girl in an act that toured throughout the world. After another accident they both abandoned circus completely and started a mine together. Now it is also gone, as is he. Now she stands here and is processing all that has been. Especially everything that happened in the relationship. She wants to move on. But is it possible?<\/p>\n<p>Cirkus is a monologue that is one\u00a0hour and forty-five minutes, 105 minutes. The team behind the set was long uncertain of how a lonely singer could fill the\u00a0scene for a so long time. But it went beyond all expectations and reactions from both press and audiences has been overwhelmingly. The process leading to the final result was long, and not least, the text went through several thorough revisions, including from a gender perspective.<\/p>\n<p>Cirkus was filmed at Atalante both the spring and fall of 2012, and visited the Orion Theatre in October 2012.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong>:<br \/>\n<a title=\"Recensioner\" href=\"http:\/\/newopera.se\/press\/recensioner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reviews<\/a>\u00a0(swedish)<br \/>\n<a title=\"Cirkus Libretto\" href=\"http:\/\/newopera.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/CirkusLibretto.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Libretto<\/a>\u00a0(swedish)<br \/>\n<a title=\"L\u00e4s om processen i utv\u00e4rderingen\" href=\"http:\/\/newopera.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Cirkus-Utv\u00e4rdering.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read all about the process<\/a>\u00a0(swedish)<\/p>\n<p><strong>See full Cirkus performance from\u00a02012 at Atalante in G\u00f6teborg.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Akt 1<br \/>\n<\/strong><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/45393134?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Akt 2<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/45393132?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Akt 3<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/45393133?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>See film from\u00a0Orionteatern in Stockholm:\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/55459015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Akt 1<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/55433890\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Akt 2<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Participants\u00a0in the orginal performance<\/strong>:<br \/>\n<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Libretto, music, musical\u00a0director \u2013 <strong>Niklas Ryd\u00e9n<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Song \u2013 <strong>\u00a0Sofia My Fryklund<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Choreography, direction \u2013 <strong>\u00a0Eva Ingemarsson<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Set design \u2013 <strong>\u00a0Cajsa Branchetti-Hallberg, Niklas Ryd\u00e9n<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Costume \u2013 <strong>\u00a0Cajsa Branchetti-Hallberg<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Light design \u2013 <strong>\u00a0Viktor Wendin<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Piano, rehearsal \u2013 <strong>\u00a0David Sperling-Bolander<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Violin \u2013 <strong> Karin Wiberg<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Percussion \u2013 <strong>\u00a0Ebba Westerberg<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Violincello \u2013 <strong>\u00a0Johannes Bergion<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Production \u2013 <strong>\u00a0Luisa Denward, Sofia \u00c5hrman<\/strong><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Cirkus is New Opera Co&#8217;s third work. It began to be written in autumn 2010 and premiered in the spring of 2012. With Cirkus Niklas Ryd\u00e9n wanted to try the monologue form and examine new-opera ability to credibly convey and carry strong melodramatic feelings of existential nature. Cirkus is about a woman who has &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newopera.se\/en\/cirkus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cirkus&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-produktioner"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6Z47T-cirkus","jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newopera.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/0_HeadSofiaGreen.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newopera.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newopera.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newopera.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newopera.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newopera.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":48,"href":"http:\/\/newopera.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2732,"href":"http:\/\/newopera.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/2732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newopera.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newopera.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newopera.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newopera.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}