FULL Alida an Opera of Awakening (Verheul) Netherlands 2022

Alida; an Opera of Awakening is based on Alida N11 songs of Awareness for Mezzo soprano and piano The Alidas are songs that reflect my perception of our contemporary society anno 2020 and 2021. I have to do this because I want later generations to know through Art what an individual, I see, feels, experiences, hears in this. I do not want this time to be described as a Dystopia or a Utopia but merely as an era, a world, of birth and death in the figurative sense of creating and breaking down to make way for something better. I see this time as a birth to something new and as almost all births are experienced as painful; figuratively this is an age of birth pains. I see the resurrection of man, I see the literal and figurative destruction of the great powers. The pain of suffering. The search for insight into oneself. The age of insight is dawning. Preface The Alidas are songs that reflect my perception of our contemporary society anno 2020. I have to do this because I want later generations to know through Art what an individual, I see, feels, experiences, hears in this.