Name: Bad Dante Bad English Bad Opera: Purgatorio I–IX
Start: 2022-06-07T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-06-08T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Carte Blanche Theatre

Organization

Bergen International Festival

Stage director

Andrea Sprefico

Lighting designer

Randiane Sandboe

Costume designer

Miranda Mac Letten

Conductor

Matteo Fargion

Choreographer

Timothy Bartlett

Mirthe Bogaert

Karen Eide Bøen

Instrumentalist

Björn Guo

Stefan Penjin

Live Sunniva Smid

Singer

Soprano

Martha MacBean

Contralto

Francesca Fargion

Alto

Tenor

Baritone

Robert M. Johanson

Orchestra

Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra

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Bad Dante Bad English Bad Opera: Purgatorio I–IX

Bergen

Norway

Carte Blanche Theatre

Studio Bergen

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Bad Dante Bad English Bad Opera (Purgatorio I-IX) by Spreafico Eckly and Matteo Fargion is a 90 minutes long chamber opera that revises the first 9 canti of Dante's…

​Playful chamber opera about the waiting souls of purgatory.

Bad Dante Bad English Bad Opera is a new version of Dante's classic Purgatory from The Divine Comedy. The strict verse form from the original Italian version has been transferred to the music's rythm, and the text has been rewritten into anti-academic "street language" English.

From a stripped-down stage, four singers / actors and three string players present the first nine cantos of Purgatory: Antepurgatorio. Here, in transit between hell and paradise, Dante meets the souls who are waiting to atone for their sins. Human emotions such as imperfection, justice, confusion, and tolerance are explored in a smart, refreshing, and humorous way.

The chamber opera Bad Dante Bad English Bad Opera is created by Spreafico Eckly, the Bergen-based production company of writer and theatre director Andrea Spreafico, and composer and artist Matteo Fargion.

​Lekende kammeropera om skjærsildens ventende sjeler.

​Bad Dante Bad English Bad Opera er en ny versjon av Dantes klassiske Skjærsilden fra Den gudommelige komedie. Den strenge verseformen fra den italienske originalversjonen er overført til rytmene i musikken, og teksten er omskrevet til anti-akademisk «gatespråk»-engelsk.  

Fra en nedstrippet scene presenterer fire sangere/skuespillere og tre strykere de ni første sangene i Skjærsilden: Antepurgatorio. Her, i transitt mellom helvete og paradis, møter Dante sjelene som venter på å gjøre bot for sine synder. På smart, forfriskende og humoristisk vis utforskes menneskelige følelser som ufullkommenhet, rettferdighet, forvirring og toleranse.  

Kammeroperaen Bad Dante Bad English Bad Opera er skapt av Spreafico Eckly, det bergensbaserte produksjonsselskapet til tekstforfatter og regissør Andrea Spreafico, og komponist og artist Matteo Fargion.

norsk

Bad Dante Bad English Bad Opera: Purgatorio I–IX by Fargion, Wed 08 Jun 2022, From (2022/2022), Directed by Andrea Sprefico,, Conductor Matteo Fargion, Carte Blanche Theatre, Bergen, Norway

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