Babyopera: Christina Lindgren & Eivind Buene (Sold out)

Babyopera: Christina Lindgren & Eivind Buene
Eivind Buene: Amor's Ease, opera for babies (2020, WP)
Den Norske Opera & Ballett / Foajeen
11/9 – 15/9
50 – 100 NOK

Babyopera gives children a taste of the strong emotions adults experience through the medium of opera.

For Ultima, Babyopera will develop two baroque-flavoured performances, adapted by composers Maja S.K. Ratkje and Eivind Buene, and featuring sopranos Silje Aker Johnsen (Norway) and Elisabeth Holmertz (Sweden). These two new works for very young children (0-3) are presented as performances with a total duration of 30 minutes and are designed to put the children in touch with emotions of loss, grief, pain, comfort, courage and hope.

Eivind Buene: Amor's Ease, opera for babies (2020, WP)
The second performance includes a fragment of Henry Purcell’s King Arthur (1691), specifically the aria ‘What Power Art Thou’. Here, ‘the Cold Genius’ will sing about the physical pain caused by the coldness around him or her. Love provides comfort and courage in this world of pain.

Christina Lindgren – libretto
Music and lyrics – Eivind Buene (aria from King Arthur by Henry Purcell and John Dryden
With Elisabeth Holmertz, Silje Aker Johnsen
Christina Lindgren – director
Tormod Lindgren – scenography
Christina Lindgren – costume
Elizabeth Svarstad – choreography
Svante Aulis Löwenborg – dramaturgy
Camilla Svingen / Syv Mil – producer Babyopera
Karstein Solli – consultant

Produced by Babyopera and Den Norske Opera & Ballett. Supported by Kulturrådet.
(Photo: Erik Berg)