Costume Designer: Anjana Pavlic
Chamber ensemble of the Slovenian Chamber Music Theatre
C / C, monopera
Author: Richard Harve /
Soloist: Gloria Tronel
The Opera tells The Story of C Animalline Arnauld, a Romanian Jewish emigrant who left home as Carolina Goldstein. In 1920, she became famous as the only woman in the circle of the Dadaist movement in Paris. Her unique 12 collections of poetry enriched the literary pantheon of that time. Caktline Arnauld is also the author of a number of Dadaist pamphlets, "manifestos", and radio broadcasts that were central to the Dadaist movement and its influence. Between the two world wars, she lived and worked in Paris, speaking and writing French as if it were her native language. When her husband, poet Paul Derm Alterte, died of cancer, she committed suicide shortly thereafter. It was 1952, she ran out of money, and she felt that she was "erased" from history ... on top of that, she saw herself not as a Dadaist poet, but as a "lyrical modernist". She felt pushed away (emigrant, woman, Jewish), and in anthologies and textbooks she was almost always listed as "C'aculline Arnauld – see under Paul dermal example". She blurted out to her compatriot Tristan Tzara (self – proclaimed "Dadaist father") that her books were "there and will defend themselves" - but whether this is true, we will see a hundred years later.
ORLANDO, journey begins, monopera
Composer: Benedikt Ha
Libretto: based on the novel by Virginie Animatoolf
Orlando, mezzo-soprano: Sara Cirman
Immersed in the thrill of the Elizabethan era, we witness the beginning of Orlando's extraordinary journey. Orlando is a young nobleman who is emerging as a poet at the court of Queen Elizabeth I. Surrounded by a passionate, adventurous existence, he is fascinated by the beauty of poetry and the sparkling splendor of the court. After a long sleep, she wakes up as a woman almost four hundred years later. Orlando's world is mesmerizing and mysterious, as it is endowed with extraordinary powers that take him on a gripping journey in which love, power and the transience of existence are mixed. His search for identity is marked by touching encounters in which he discovers the true essence of life and the challenges that stand in his way.
Kostumografinja: Anjana Pavlič
Komorni ansambel Slovenskega komornega glasbenega gledališča
CÉLINE, monopera
Avtor: Richard Harvey
Solistka: Gloria Tronel
Opera pripoveduje zgodbo Céline Arnauld, romunske judovske emigrantke, ki je zapustila dom kot Carolina Goldstein. Leta 1920 je zaslovela kot edina ženska v krogu dadaističnega gibanja v Parizu. Njenih edinstvenih 12 pesniških zbirk je obogatilo tedanji literarni panteon. Céline Arnauld je tudi avtorica številnih dadaističnih pamfletov, »manifestov« in radijskih oddaj, ki so bile osrednjega pomena za dadaistično gibanje in njegov vpliv. Med obema vojnama je živela in delala v Parizu, govorila in pisala francosko pa je, kot bi bil to njen materni jezik. Ko je njen mož, pesnik Paul Dermée, umrl zaradi raka, je kmalu zatem naredila samomor. Bilo je leto 1952, zmanjkalo ji je denarja in čutila je, da je »izbrisana« iz zgodovine ... za povrh se ni videla kot dadaistična pesnica, temveč kot »lirska modernistka«. Počutila se je odrinjeno (emigrantka, ženska, Judinja), v antologijah in učbenikih pa je bila skoraj vedno navedena kot »Céline Arnauld – glej pod Paul Dermée«. Svojemu rojaku Tristanu Tzari (samooklicanemu »dadaističnemu očetu«) je zabrusila, da so njene knjige »tam in se bodo branile« – ali je to res, pa bomo videli sto let pozneje.
ORLANDO, potovanje se začne, monopera
Skladatelj: Benedikt Hayoz
Libreto: po romanu Virginie Woolf
Orlando, mezzosopran: Sara Briški Cirman
Potopljeni v vznemirjenje elizabetinske dobe smo priče začetku Orlandovega izjemnega potovanja. Orlando je mlad plemič, ki se na dvoru kraljice Elizabete I. razvija kot pesnik. Obdan s strastnim, pustolovskim obstojem, je očaran nad lepoto poezije in iskrivim sijajem dvora. Po dolgem spancu se zbudi kot ženska skoraj štiristo let pozneje. Orlandov svet je očarljiv in skrivnosten, saj je obdarjen z izrednimi močmi, ki ga popeljejo na prevzemajoče potovanje, na katerem se mešajo ljubezen, moč in minljivost obstoja. Njegovo iskanje identitete zaznamujejo ganljiva srečanja, na katerih odkriva pravo bistvo življenja in izzive, ki mu stojijo na poti.