Unconventional
SAILOR I Chamber opera
Premiere:
2025-11-26
The chamber opera "The Sailor" is based on the only play by Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa. It is a meditation on the nature of dreams and reality. The opera tells the story of three sisters keeping vigil over the urn of their fourth sister, who has died. To pass the time, they share memories of past moments they may never have experienced and dreams, one of which is about a sailor who finds himself on an uninhabited island. Inspired by these stories, the sisters question the nature of reality, death, and dreams: perhaps they themselves are just illusions of the imagination of an unknown dreamer?
KAFKA INSOMNIA
Premiere:
May 20-21, 2020
Visual live music performance for teens and adults KAFKA INSOMNIA tells a realistically dreamy story of a sleepless night by Czech writer Franc Kafka. Wakeful dreaming – is it a creative method, a lifestyle, a consequence of illness or the core reason of genius literature by Kafka? A dream created by insomnia and invading tangible reality, makes F. Kafka’s work conditional, full of unexpected images, extended feeling of time, premature absurd, existentialism or even surrealistic approach leading step by step with consistent descriptions, common in the school of realism.
