2nd February 2012 (possible further performances until the 5th February 2012)
"Vice & Virtue - The Art of Gesture.
What to do and how to say it in Opera"
Palladium Baroque, Malmo, Sweden
Deda Cristina Colonna, director
Peter Spissky, musical director
Bjorn Ross, scenographer and video designer
Joseph MacRae Ballantyne, assistant director
This performance is the result of an intensive workshop with the students of Malmo’s Musikhogskolan, based on the word-gesture-music relationship in the stage practice of Baroque opera. The performance puts on stage the workshop process itself, in order to frame the historically informed singing and acting practice within the larger context of contemporary theatre. A collage of instrumental pieces, arias, duets and scenes, dances and texts is staged in the form of a theatre moment portraying the relationship of the young singers to the director, the conductor, the scenographer and the assistant director as they experience the vices and virtues of opera stage practice.
