Featuring: Gergő Frumen, Lívia Habermann, Faye Bradbury, Aaron Taylor – prose, Ádám Abonyi Tóth, Károly Bojtos, Barnabás Fekete, Benedek Tóth – percussion, Andrea Fekete, Orsolya Sapszon, Eszter Puskás, Márton Komáromi, Lajos Fodré, Dénes Murvai – voice, Cantate Mixed Choir (choirmaster: Ferenc Sapszon Jr)
Music: Lucio Ivaldi
Lyrics: David Brendan Hopes
Production design: Nicola Vidali
Lighting: Hernando Claros-Velasco
Director: Honora Foah
The Birth of Colours is a one-hour total-art performance with a 57-member mixed choir, four narrators, percussion instruments and singing bowls. The composer is the Italian Lucio Ivaldi, and the libretto was written by American poet David Brendan Hopes. The story is simple, like a basic myth, and is based on ancient beliefs about the origin of the world, as well as the discoveries of contemporary science. The sources of the libretto include ancient Indian Vedas, theories of dark matter and dark energy, the evolution of elemental forces, and Goethe’s colour theory.
Creation is told as a love story, where the original oneness engenders longing and appreciation as it begins to split into all of the parts of the visible world. The work is a reminder of the sheer beauty and wonder of creation and how the more we understand, the more mysterious and beautiful it becomes.
Multimedia contemporary opera in one act, without interval.
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