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Polia and Blastema (Gamboa) Sci-fi Movie Opera USA 2021
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Polia and Blastema
- Composer: Gavin Gamboa
- Libretto: E Elias Merhige
- Venue & Opera Company: studio USA
- Recorded: 2021
- Type: Movie
- Singers: Nina McNeely, Jasmine Albuquerque, Micaela Tobin, Sharon Chohi Kim
- Conductor:
- Orchestra:
- Stage Director: E Elias Merhige
- Stage Designer: David Wexler
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Century Guild Creative Strangeloop Studios The Teaching Machine
- Date Published: 2021
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Polia & Blastema, E. Elias Merhige’s first foray into opera, is a 40 minute gnostic creation myth told through a visual tapestry which journeys into immensely desolate hellscapes of the inorganic as organic folding back onto itself in ever spiraling, fractally superimposing cataclysms of wormhole network (be)longing.
Aesthetically tempered by aspects of decay, rot, earth, and the meta- myth structure of human cognition, the multi-leveled world of Polia & Blastema is in-formed by Viennese Actionism as much as it is by Eugene Thacker’s notions of “the world without us”, of supernatural horror and dissolution, expressed in the separation and (re)union of two entities who in the end feast on one another in ritualistic ecstasy