Composer Michel van der Aa is a multidisciplinary figure in the contemporary music scene, combining composition with film, stage direction, and script writing. He comes to the Armory for the North American premiere of his latest work, a chamber opera for soprano and 3D film. Based on the life and work of South African poet Ingrid Jonker, BLANK OUT combines live action, innovative techniques of interactive film, and inventive music to enable audiences (who wear 3D glasses) to consider the ways in which we reconstruct and deal with traumatic life events. Soprano Miah Persson sings live, combined with replayed loops of herself and the voice of baritone Roderick Williams on film to create haunting musical passages and ensembles and, in the process, an entirely new form of 21st century opera.
70 minutes, no intermission
September 21st, 2017
September 27th, 2017
13+
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