Organization

Singer

Soprano

Elīna Garanča

Carmen

Selene Zanetti

Floria Tosca

Nadine Sierra

Lucia Ashton

Maria Agresta

Norma

Carmen Giannattasio

Cio-Cio-San

Annalisa Stroppa

Valeria Sepe

Nino Machaidze

Desdemona

Zuzana Marková

Roberta Mantegna

Kristīne Opolais

Violetta Valéry

Marina Abramović

Performer

Willem Dafoe

Interprete su video

Stage director

Conductor

Yoel Gamzou

Lighting designer

Urs Schönebaum

Costume designer

Riccardo Tisci

Set designer

Video designer

Nabil Elderkin

Sound designer

Luka Kozlovacki

Spoken

Booklet

Petter Skavlan

Collaborator Set Designer

Anna Schöttl

Performance

Musiche

Marko Nikodijević

Bayerische Staatsoper

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Gran Teatre del Liceu

Opéra National de Paris

Greek National Opera

Teatro di San Carlo

Orchestra

Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo

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Georgine Balk

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7 Deaths of Maria Callas

Naples

Italy

7 Deaths of Maria Callas Various

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No singer can ignore the dramatically dying woman; the most famous arias in operatic history belong to her. Maria Callas has also died many times in her career. The performance icon Marina Abramović takes seven of her opera deaths as a starting point: she extracts them from the plot and experiences them herself, projected on a video screen. Each time the artist is killed in a different way. The aesthetically exaggerated pain ritualizes and stylizes Callas' love and death into a myth. Parallel to the video action, seven sopranos sing the famous Callas arias live. At the end of the evening, Abramović himself is on stage when it comes to the death of the person Maria Callas and reality and her portrayal merge. In 7 DEATHS OF MARIA CALLAS, the Serbian artist deconstructs opera and puts it in dialogue with performance art: as her personal homage to one of the greatest singers of the time, but also as a snapshot of a life devoted to art; along with the pain and fascination it can cause.

Born in what was then Yugoslavia, Marina Abramović has had a significant impact on the international art scene and especially performance art since the 1970s. Her partner in this production is Willem Dafoe, an American film actor on the video screen known for his portrayal of Vincent van Gogh in At Eternity's Gate and for his membership in the Wooster Group. The new composition by the young Serb Marko Nikodijević complements the original arias from the seven operas.

7 Deaths of Maria Callas by Nikodijević, From (2022/2022), Directed by Marina Abramović,, Conductor Yoel Gamzou, Teatro di San Carlo, Naples, Italy

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