Aa, Michel van der

After Life (2005-06,rev.2009)

Duración: 100 minutos
Opera for 6 singers, ensemble, video and electronic soundtrack

Libretto by Michel van der Aa after Hirokazu Kore-Eda (E)

Orquestación
2S,M,A,2Bar; 0.1.1.bcl.0-0.1.0.1-positive org(=hpd)-strings(4.4.3.2.2); electronic soundtrack; video projections.
Abreviaturas (PDF).

Territorio
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Uraufführung
6/2/2006
Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, Amsterdam
Michel van der Aa, Regisseur
Director: Otto Tausk
Compañía: Netherlands Opera / Asko Ensemble



Erstaufführung der Fassung
9/28/2009
Muziektheater, Amsterdam
Michel van der Aa, Regisseur
Director: Otto Tausk
Compañía: Asko/Schönberg Ensemble / Netherlands Opera

Nota del repertorio
What was the most defining moment in your life? This is the question that stands at the heart of Michel van der Aa’s opera. Taking the film of the same name by Hirokazu Kore-Eda as its basis, the opera introduces us to people who are taken directly from their earthly existence into heaven. They may experience their most important memory once more in the form of a film and then take it with them into eternity. A complex structure results from a combination of live action, film, live music and electronic sounds, which van der Aa builds further onto his successful one act opera One – itself awarded the Matthijs Vermeulen Prize in 2004. Extremely diverse time-periods are reflected in the music and in the plot, although the work nevertheless preserves its clarity and an unequivocality that flows ceaselessly from its humanistic base.

Ánimos
Poetic

Temas
Ethics, Relationships, Religion, Society