A cricket with a depression and an elephant with an obsession, along with sixteen other characterful animals present themselves in Pierre Audi’s new staging of Richard Ayers successful modern opera The Cricket Recovers. The libretto by Rozalie Hirs is based on Dutch writer Toon Tellegen’s award winning novel The recovery of the cricket. Through eighteen short scenes we follow the story of the cricket who suddenly feels a sadness that does not want to go away; and the elephant who has an uncontrollable urge to climb trees, but keeps falling out of them. In Ayres’ effervescent cocktail of baroque gesture, late romantic rhetoric and dada-esque variety, the fantastic reality of these animals resonates as a moving, intelligent expression of the human condition.
dates
Wed June 15 2011 10:30 PM
Sun June 19 2011 10:30 PM
Tue June 21 2011 10:30 PM
information
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English
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Duration of performance unknown (zonder pauze)
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© Hans van den Bogaard
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© Hans van den Bogaard
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© Hans van den Bogaard