2023 live...Chapter 13: Sun & Sea - Millenium Hall, City Hall, Cork, June 24 2023
Cork Midsummer Festival.
An opera. In theory. Like Bjork might have imagined.
Set on a beach.
We are on a balcony looking down on a patch of sand. Where people in their togs are lying on towels. Playing ball games. Reading.
Having picnics. Walking the dog.
And singing.
Overhead infernal lights shine down to indicate blazing sun.
The songs centre on foreign travel. Airports. Resorts.
Climate change.
Sung in conventional opera style. But conversational. And against a cosmic electronic soundtrack.
It floated and drifted. The singers changed for each song in a continuous ambient flow.
Moments of communal voices singing without harmony and lifting the heart.
By the end we were sweating under the lights. And contemplating the beauty and brutality of the human universe.
They call it apocalypse in a pastel colour palette.
A full blown masterpiece of intrigue and emotion this event.
An opera. In theory. Like Bjork might have imagined.
Set on a beach.
We are on a balcony looking down on a patch of sand. Where people in their togs are lying on towels. Playing ball games. Reading.
Having picnics. Walking the dog.
And singing.
Overhead infernal lights shine down to indicate blazing sun.
The songs centre on foreign travel. Airports. Resorts.
Climate change.
Sung in conventional opera style. But conversational. And against a cosmic electronic soundtrack.
It floated and drifted. The singers changed for each song in a continuous ambient flow.
Moments of communal voices singing without harmony and lifting the heart.
By the end we were sweating under the lights. And contemplating the beauty and brutality of the human universe.
They call it apocalypse in a pastel colour palette.
A full blown masterpiece of intrigue and emotion this event.
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