Aniara: Fragments of time and space
Premiered June 2019
Available for Touring
Composer and Co-Conceiver: Robert Maggio (USA)
Director, Librettist and Co-Conceiver: Dan Henriksson (FIN)
Conductor and Co-Conceiver: Donald Nally (USA)
Ensemble: 16 singers from The Crossing (USA), 2 actors from Klockriketeatern (FIN), & 1 dancer from Wusheng Company (FIN)
Based on the epic poem by Harry Martinson (SWE)
photo and video provided by The Crossing and Klockriketeatern
Premiered in Philadelphia (June 2019) with further performances at the Haarlem Choral Biennale, The Netherlands (July 2019) and Finnish National Opera, Helsinki (September 2019), Aniara:fragments of time and space is the critically-acclaimed collaboration from The Crossing, Klockriketeatern, and composer Robert Maggio.
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The last spaceship to leave a dying earth veers off course and heads into eternity; her passengers are left to face the emptiness within and without. Based on the epic poem by Nobel Prize winner Harry Martinson, Aniara follows the physical and emotional voyage of this group, headed forever toward the constellation Lyra.
Combining theater and composed music, Aniara explores the relationship between disparate practices and genres of art, while asking questions about our relationship to one another, to Earth, and to the passage of time. Sometimes cold and brutal, at other times touching, it is a ruthlessly honest view of human nature.
