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FULL FILM PERFORMANCE A New Opera by Luciana Perc London 2022 Anna Marmion, Katherine Allen, Garreth Romain, Thomas Niesser, Camille Maalawy
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: FILM PERFORMANCE
- Composer: Perc Luciana
- Libretto: Luciana Perc Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: The Cockpit, London, UK, Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival
- Recorded: September 3, 2022
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Anna Marmion, Katherine Allen, Garreth Romain, Thomas Niesser, Camille Maalawy
- Conductor:
- Orchestra: Instrumental Ensemble
- Stage Director: Luciana Perc
- Stage Designer: Amara Cooke
- Costume Designer: Eugenia Fiusco
Information about the Recording
- Published by: MyNewOpera
- Date Published: 2022
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Film performance is a brand new opera exploring the intrinsic physicality of musical performance and the odd comical ways in which we interacted with cameras over the pandemic.
A musical response to the short film Film (a 1965 collaboration between Samuel Beckett and Buster Keaton), this work uses microphones and cameras on stage to create electroacoustic sounds and a film projection in real time. Everyday objects featured in Film are brought to the stage and turned into sound-making devices. The show is composed of a series of solos. Each solo focuses on a specific combination of objects featured in the short-film, from a newspaper and a hat to a fish tank and a bird cage, combining the sounds produced with these objects with vocal, instrumental and electroacoustic sounds.
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