FULL Dead Cat Bounce an oratorio about catastrophe and finance (Oldham) London 2022
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Dead Cat Bounce
- Composer: Oldham James
- Libretto: Klara Kofen, Gary Zhexi Zhang
- Venue & Opera Company: Somerset House, London, UK
- Recorded: July 14, 2022
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers: Gabriella Liandu, Meili Li, Geoff Clapham
- Conductor:
- Orchestra: Instrumental Ensemble
- Chorus: WASTE PAPER OPERA CHORUS
- Chorus Master: James Oldham
- Stage Director:
- Stage Designer: Klara Kofen, Gary Zhexi Zhang
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Waste Paper Opera
- Date Published: 2022
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs
- Video Recording from: Vimeo FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Dead Cat Bounce is a collaborative performance work by Gary Zhexi Zhang and Waste Paper Opera, telling tales of time, money and the unmaking of reality in the wake of catastrophe.
The piece unfolds over five vignettes, blurring the lines between capitalism and ritual, finance and nature, belief and manifestation. In China, five hitmen arrive in court to discover that they have each subcontracted another to kill the same real estate developer. In Geneva, thirty virgins are having their teeth checked in order to secure the mounting debts of Louis XVI. In Miami, an insurance broker drafts a contract for apartments already halfway underwater. In Jerusalem, the prophet Jeremiah is weeping, again. In earthquake-struck Edo, workers pay tribute to the namazu, the catfish deity, as they survey the sunlit ruins of the city.