The Seventh Seal - Opera
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Entertainment
Start date
Thu, Nov 10 07:00 PM
End date
Thu, Nov 10 09:30 PM
Address / City
58 Park Avenue New York
Location
NY, US
The International Brazilian Opera Company returns to Scandinavia House this fall to present a concert preview of Act One from The Seventh Seal – Opera, a new work by composer João MacDowell with text from Ingmar Bergman’s film of the same name.
“I relied primarily on the 1957 version of the film. I also used the audio of the film to guide me in writing the music, following the intonation from the actors,” MacDowell says.
MacDowell is a two-time recipient of an artist residency at The Bergman Estate on Fårö, where The Seventh Seal-Opera was created. The Seventh Seal, considered a classic of world cinema, follows the story of a disillusioned crusader’s return to his plague-ravaged homeland and subsequent chess match with Death. In MacDowell’s opera the role of Death has been given to a dramatic soprano, Olga Bakali, while tenor Nelson Ebo will play the knight.
Act One will be sung in Swedish with projected English subtitles.
Also performed on Nov. 12 at 7 p.m.
“I relied primarily on the 1957 version of the film. I also used the audio of the film to guide me in writing the music, following the intonation from the actors,” MacDowell says.
MacDowell is a two-time recipient of an artist residency at The Bergman Estate on Fårö, where The Seventh Seal-Opera was created. The Seventh Seal, considered a classic of world cinema, follows the story of a disillusioned crusader’s return to his plague-ravaged homeland and subsequent chess match with Death. In MacDowell’s opera the role of Death has been given to a dramatic soprano, Olga Bakali, while tenor Nelson Ebo will play the knight.
Act One will be sung in Swedish with projected English subtitles.
Also performed on Nov. 12 at 7 p.m.
Organizer
Scandinavia House
Phone
212.779.3587
Email
info@amscan.org
