– a surreal electronic opera
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There are two persons. One of them has been there for a long time. They are waiting for something. Days, months, years pass. Everything is frozen. Water, ice, thistles, roses. Swans are fighting bulls. They talk. They remember. Do they know each other? What are they waiting for?
As time passes, they think about what really is important in life and are drawn into fantasies, dreams and fears. And then one day, finally…
Regrets is NewOpera CO’s new work. It is an electronic opera that wants to explore what happens when sung dramatic text resides in electronic sound worlds. The drama takes place in three different rooms that shift the relationship between actor and spectator in different ways.
Regrets is about regret, about different life choices, about guilt, about reconciliation, about the fact that we are all going to die, and that the journey there goes faster than most of us want to realize.
”This is the most restrained of NewOpera’s productions, but it is also the saddest. The regret that the title speaks of is about trying to put life back together, using fragments of memory and dream scenes. There is a fine and sensitive tone in the electronic soundscapes…” Magnus Haglund GP 18 09 23
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Regrets film:
Regrets is 1 h 30 min including a short intermission that is part of the game.
The Libretto (swedish) can be found here.
Process-blog with background material is here.
Read Magnus Haglunds review (swedish) here.
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Team
Niklas Rydén, libretto, music
Saga Björklund Jönsson, song, dramaturgy, action
Karin Wiberg, song, synth, violin, action
Niklas Rydén, song, synth, piano, action
Amanda Nordmark, production
Viktor Wendin, light design, set design consultant
Rasmus Persson, sound design, complementary composition
Anna Nordkvist, costume
Eva Ingemarsson, dramaturgy, choreography, direction
Anna Ulén, direction
Hannes Rydén, sound assistens
Dan Tommi Hildén, sound assistens
Beata Rydén, photo
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