I Hate Music (4+)

1 September ’19 > 1 June ’20

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Opera performance for children based on the eponymous song cycle by Leonard Bernstein.

I Hate Music! is a collaboration with Opera Compact.

This opera is performed in Dutch.

Introduction A soprano and a pianist (for an audience of 4 to 104, from group 6 to group 8) present a performance about the wonder hidden in children’s questions. Why does the world work the way it does? The short performance (about 35 minutes) is accompanied by an interactive part, where the young listeners are made to think and, above all, to question. The performers enter into direct contact with their young audience and give them space to think about the world around us. Due to its flexibility, the mobile performance can be played at many locations and likes to explore the boundaries!

Story Feed them with bread: they start to grow. Feed them with love: they start to feel. Feed them with ideas: they start to think. Feed them with art: they start to understand.

(fragment of a conversation during a train journey between mother and daughter)

– Mama, is this the real world? – … Yes, honey, this is the real world. – (stares at fingers) But am I real? – Come on, stop with that nonsense.

The child’s world is one of discovery and questioning. What is the world like and why? Within their own reach, in their own words, children are beginning to ask themselves the big questions that have occupied us for millennia. Where are we from? How does the universe work? Why do I do what I do? How do we design the society around us together? This “Philosophy für Anfänger” is often very specific, casual and of great inventiveness. That makes the conversations with children about this so special.

I Hate Music! by Leonard Bernstein, a short song cycle based on self-written poems, is a musical gem in which the composer bears witness to a great insight into the psyche of children. Whimsical and humorous, he sketches 5 small twists and turns in which major life questions pass by almost unnoticed. In combination with a few more ‘wonderings’ songs (because after all, philosophy begins with wonder) by Maurice Ravel and Charles Ives, among others, translated into the Netherlands, Opera Zuid creates a small, intimate performance for soprano and pianist, which the children watch looking for questions and less for answers.

Creatives

Direction Sybrand van der Werf
Piano Robert Weirauch
Vocals Fenna Ograjensek

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