Microoperas of Today | Activity

Inspired by the visions of women mystics like Hildegard von Bingen, as well as the forms of representation in Romanesque art (hieratism, breaking with the space-time dimension and so on), aura features melismatic chants and digital echoes, inhabited by water spirits and voices from the other side. Disembodied, plasmatic characters, perhaps children of an inter-species future.

aura therefore stands not only as a paean to nature as a place of peace and refuge, of imagination, life and thoughtwith water as a central element, but also as a song against the devastation of war.

In a time like our own, with a pressing climate crisis, aura reminds us of the germinating, purifying and repairing power of water as a basic element in both human beings and the planet, while highlighting an ecosophical awareness we must cling to and nurture if we are to survive and achieve a harmonious balance.

Microoperas of Today

Setting out from shared concern about the climate crisis, interspecies communication and the acoustics of natureit presents a journey of artistic reflection structured by sounds, words and images. Each institution stages a newly-created multidisciplinary opera lasting between 15 and 20 minutes, offering the audience a unique way to open up new views and questions concerning matters that speak to us and affect us.

With an approach specially designed to showcase young artists from the visual, performing and literary arts, Microoperas of Today reflects on the lyric genre by exploring the relationship between music, new technology and new stage writing.