IndieFest | re:Naissance Opera presents Future Mythologies
In tribute to this year’s festival theme, 'Future Mythologies' is a celebratory showcase for new works in development that redefine the future of storytelling. Through performance excerpts and facilitated discussions between artists and audiences, this event unveils the captivating evolution of three groundbreaking new works: Eurydice Fragments, CHINATOWN, and Inferno, a Hip-Hop Opera.
Eurydice Fragments: re:Naissance Opera’s AUREA award-winning team gathers once more to fuse opera, dance, extended reality, and emerging technology in this contemporary version of the Orphean myth. Through an immersive exploration of our digital and carbon existences, the performance dissolves the binaries we are bound to from birth until death, and strums the threads between heaven and hell, male and female, maker and muse, performer and audience.
CHINATOWN: Chinatown is a new opera in development by Madeleine Thien (librettist), Alice Ping Yee Ho (composer), Paul Yee (Translator / librettist) and Marjorie Chan (Dramaturg). The opera, set in Vancouver’s Chinatown, follows the story of two men and the legacies they strive to create for their families in the midst of the Chinese Immigration Act and anti-asian racism. In this presentation, the creative team will share insight into their collaborative process and share text excerpts from their newly created second act to this much-anticipated opera.
Inferno, A Hip-Hop Opera: After the first workshop presentation at IndieFest 2022, Inferno returns to blend hip-hop, rap, beat boxing, sampling, R&B, and contemporary opera in celebration of IBPOC voices. Co-Written by Omari Newton and Amy Lee Lavoie and inspired by Dante’s Inferno, this feminist, anti-establishment, and anti-colonial allegory pairs opera’s emotional richness with hip-hop’s text driven, poetic aesthetics, this musical fusion will culminate in an illustration of paradise for IBPOC people and communities.
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