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FULL I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC (Claire Blake) London 2014 Werner Kitzmüller, Christina Scherrer, Jonas Bente
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: I sing the body electric
- Composer: Blake Claire
- Libretto: Charles Bukowski, Claire Blake Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Kings Place St Pancras Room, London, UK
- Recorded: August 9 & 10, 2014
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Werner Kitzmüller, Christina Scherrer, Jonas Bente
- Conductor: Hannes Dufek
- Orchestra:
- Stage Director: Claire Blake
- Stage Designer: Katrin Hupf
- Costume Designer: Katrin Hupf
Information about the Recording
- Published by: tete a tete
- Date Published: 2014
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Genesis
This is a rough and ready experimental music-‐theatre production that came to be from a desire to create more collaborative and experimental forms of music-‐theatre and opera. Using sparse text, projections and musical improvisation, it was developed with the intention of loosening up the predictive nature of the score and libretto
– looking to separate the dramatic communicative means. Developed in rehearsal around a pre-‐written script using improvised music, it is a contemplative and unexpected production celebrating life and the inevitability of death.
About
Inspired by a Charles Bukowski poem, the poet himself and a little known play – The Theatre of The Soul – by Nikolai Evreinov, I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC follows our protagonist from birth until death, exploring what it means to live life to the fullest. From gambling, to drinking and struggling to understand love, we watch as the main character figures out what life will mean to him.
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