Agenda Municipal / Theatre Opera Real - End of the World Rerun (premiere)
Fri 19 May
Casa das Artes programme
Grand auditorium | 21h30
Admission: 6 euros. Students, Cultural Quadrilateral Card and Seniors (over 65 years): 3 euros | Rating: M/6 | Running time: 150 min
This opera was designed to bring together on the same stage students of the theatre and music courses of ESMAE. Hence the melodramatic plot that opposes two branches of the same family, on one side the Ricci, or Ricardo, a lineage of singers, and on the other the Enxovia, or Paupério, a clan of actors. During 4 acts, with time jumps of exactly 111 years, we follow the deaths and births of members of this great family and get lost in the labyrinth of catastrophic kinships and inbreeding ties of the estranged clan. The theatre is destroyed in each of the acts: in Act I, in 1755, by an earthquake; in Act II, in 1866, by a fire; in Act III, in 1977, by the transformation into a pornographic film theatre; and in Act IV, in 2088, by the transformation into a refugee camp. We then learn that, due to the breach of a pact with the devil, each and every member of the family who sets foot on a stage is destined to cause the destruction of the theatre and, on its scale, to repeat the end of the world. In the first three acts, the libretto tries to play with the common history of theatre, music and opera; in the last one, with the scenic space transformed into a refugee camp that could be in Ukraine, Syria, one of the shores of the English Channel, Melilla or Odemira, things get apparently more serious. If it has not already ended, the world will end as soon as necessary.
Credits
Artistic director: António Salgado
Musical director: Jan Wierzba
Staging: António Durães
Movement: Cláudia Marisa
Dramaturgical Support: Jorge Louraço
Light Designing: João Fontes and Bernardo Correia
Coordinator of light area: Diogo Franco
Set design: Helder Maia
Video Mapping: Beatriz Nogueira
Animations: Beatriz Paiva
Coordinator of Interactive Media: Luís Leite, Rodrigo Carvalho, Hugo Mesquita
Coordinators of Costume Designer: Filipa Carolina and Manuela Bronze
Costume designer: Cristina Gil and Raquel Ribeiro
Sound: Daniel Leitão
Sound coordination: Marco Conceição
Stage Direction: Anita Magalhães Faria
Production Coordinator: Regina Carvalho and António Salgado
Executive Production Ensemble Orquestral: Jorge Alves/ Nuno Pinto
Executive Production Orchestra: Nísia Araújo e Rui Araújo
Voice director: António Salgado and Rui Taveira
Co-repetition: David Ferreira
Cast: Students of Degree course, Masters and Postgraduate study in Opera from ESMAE and Ensemble Instrumental
Grand auditorium | 21h30
Admission: 6 euros. Students, Cultural Quadrilateral Card and Seniors (over 65 years): 3 euros | Rating: M/6 | Running time: 150 min
This opera was designed to bring together on the same stage students of the theatre and music courses of ESMAE. Hence the melodramatic plot that opposes two branches of the same family, on one side the Ricci, or Ricardo, a lineage of singers, and on the other the Enxovia, or Paupério, a clan of actors. During 4 acts, with time jumps of exactly 111 years, we follow the deaths and births of members of this great family and get lost in the labyrinth of catastrophic kinships and inbreeding ties of the estranged clan. The theatre is destroyed in each of the acts: in Act I, in 1755, by an earthquake; in Act II, in 1866, by a fire; in Act III, in 1977, by the transformation into a pornographic film theatre; and in Act IV, in 2088, by the transformation into a refugee camp. We then learn that, due to the breach of a pact with the devil, each and every member of the family who sets foot on a stage is destined to cause the destruction of the theatre and, on its scale, to repeat the end of the world. In the first three acts, the libretto tries to play with the common history of theatre, music and opera; in the last one, with the scenic space transformed into a refugee camp that could be in Ukraine, Syria, one of the shores of the English Channel, Melilla or Odemira, things get apparently more serious. If it has not already ended, the world will end as soon as necessary.
Credits
Artistic director: António Salgado
Musical director: Jan Wierzba
Staging: António Durães
Movement: Cláudia Marisa
Dramaturgical Support: Jorge Louraço
Light Designing: João Fontes and Bernardo Correia
Coordinator of light area: Diogo Franco
Set design: Helder Maia
Video Mapping: Beatriz Nogueira
Animations: Beatriz Paiva
Coordinator of Interactive Media: Luís Leite, Rodrigo Carvalho, Hugo Mesquita
Coordinators of Costume Designer: Filipa Carolina and Manuela Bronze
Costume designer: Cristina Gil and Raquel Ribeiro
Sound: Daniel Leitão
Sound coordination: Marco Conceição
Stage Direction: Anita Magalhães Faria
Production Coordinator: Regina Carvalho and António Salgado
Executive Production Ensemble Orquestral: Jorge Alves/ Nuno Pinto
Executive Production Orchestra: Nísia Araújo e Rui Araújo
Voice director: António Salgado and Rui Taveira
Co-repetition: David Ferreira
Cast: Students of Degree course, Masters and Postgraduate study in Opera from ESMAE and Ensemble Instrumental
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