Opera is not a Holy Cow! – opera-maniacs announces, possessed by harsh eager to penetrate and percolate that swollen genre. Although, Opera is considered as representative attribute in context of national culture policy and stands as its significant priority, - within whole respect, even in such frame Opera is not a Holy Cow! There comes the time to grab a scalpel and get rid of this glorious overweight or radically dive into genetic engineering and set a birth for totally new breed. It’s not an artistic hooliganism it’s a shot for a goal!
XX century is an epoch marked by radical changes that affected many kinds of art. Opera wasn’t an exception – masterpieces ranging from gigantic, utopic, one week-long operas with helicopters (Karlheinz Stockhausen “Licht”) to teeny-tiny, domestic, few minutes long operas, that last no longer than your raw egg would cook (Peter Reynolds “Sands of Time”). Today opera-maniacs have no doubt that in XXI century duration of “giga and “micro” will change into “tera” and “nano”!
Nano-opera – accelerations for society! – shout opera-maniacs who are seeking that opera would stand as living art, not museum showpiece. Opera must confront and react to hectic contemporary daily routines and respond to cult of speed: fast food, fast city, fast internet, fast sex, fast credit, persecuting deadlines and shrinking periods. From now on it’s a time for fast and short opera!
Nano-opera for nano-budget! – raise hands opera-maniacs; they unbend middle finger towards adverse circumstances and declare: lack inspires! While in response of deserted budget, medium size opera is about to transform into obtrusively dreadful, anorexic event, opera-maniacs come up with suggestion – to breed a fully resistant, midget kind of opera, with ability to survive in nuclear nano-budget conditions; which could be installed in non-traditional spaces and be able to carry through all inconvenient situations. What is said, is not metaphor, it’s metamorphosis!
Independent creative group OPEROMANIJA
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