in Opera Now (May, 2019)
Anything further away from a tango than Icelandic artist Björk would be difficult to imagine. Singer, actress, producer; Björk marches to her own beat and nobody else’s. As her pop career moved from house and techno music, she turned a corner with a more experimental 2001 album called Vespertine, using overlays of vocals, chamber orchestras and random sounds. It became a classic of its genre and provides the inspiration for a new live release from the Nationaltheater Mannheim working with Danish art collective Hotel Pro Forma, Vespertine, a Pop Album as an Opera. Interestingly, the work includes no electronic element at all, the whole piece being completely acoustic, and its …
Bjork: Vespertine, A Pop Album as an Opera – Ji Yoon
Vespertine
Introduktion: Chaos
Hidden place
Cocoon
The birth of Uranus (Intermezzo)
It’s not up to you
Uranus covers the earth
Undo
The titans
Pagan poetry
The sickle (Intermezzo)
Frosti
Aurora
The emasculation (Intermezzo)
An echo, a stain
Sun in my mouth
The illuminated man (Intermezzo)
Heirloom
The blood of Uranus
Harm of will
The birth of Aphrodite
Unison
The golden age
Ji Yoon, Aki Hashimoto, Chor Des Nationaltheaters Mannheim, Orchester des Nationaltheaters Mannheim, Matthew Toogwood
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