Our Story
Music Conservatory in Utrecht is a great place. Amazingly talented and interesting people are coming here for decades to perfect their performing skills, collaborate on interesting project, expand their social networks and be in contact with an incredible diverse group of young musicians from all over the world. This is the place where Pétur and I met four years ago and since then we have been working together on several operatic projects, most notably Die Zauberflote and A vinganca da Cigana. We love opera. We love comedy. We love to perform with our colleagues who feel equally enthusiastic about music as we are.
Since we work great together, we decided to venture into a totally independent project that we will jointly produce, organize rehearse and perform. So instead of siting and waiting for someone to call us to sing, we decided to take our emerging careers into our own hands and create opportunities to perform on operatic stage. In accordance with our preferences & voice types we choose this opera because it’s funny, the music is great and the story gives us many options to create musically and theatrically appealing performance.
However, for us it is not enough only to sing. We want to challenge the borders of public perception of what baroque opera is by producing the story in a contemporary setting that everyone can relate to. We will engage a period music ensemble and music-wise, do our best to stay true to the baroque opera performance practice, but theater-wise we are bringing up a totally new and to our knowledge not yet seen modern setting.
We believe that Pergolesi's master piece is speaking in a timeless language that is not connected to any particular era and that the music and dialogues speak in an equally contemporary language to modern day audience and as up-to-date now as they were in the past. Pergolesi pictures desires opposite sexes in a series of sassy dialogues, arias and duets that is unparalleled in the operatic literature.
Together with a team of dedicated young professionals we are venturing into this project with a vision that we can make a difference. The premiere is scheduled for Saturday, November 15th at Theater Pantalone in Ijsselstein at the outskirts of Utrecht.
The best part is that you too and indeed anyone on this planet can make a difference too by joining us in our adventure. So do not hesitate and go to our crowd campaign page & become one of our supporters today.
Since we work great together, we decided to venture into a totally independent project that we will jointly produce, organize rehearse and perform. So instead of siting and waiting for someone to call us to sing, we decided to take our emerging careers into our own hands and create opportunities to perform on operatic stage. In accordance with our preferences & voice types we choose this opera because it’s funny, the music is great and the story gives us many options to create musically and theatrically appealing performance.
However, for us it is not enough only to sing. We want to challenge the borders of public perception of what baroque opera is by producing the story in a contemporary setting that everyone can relate to. We will engage a period music ensemble and music-wise, do our best to stay true to the baroque opera performance practice, but theater-wise we are bringing up a totally new and to our knowledge not yet seen modern setting.
We believe that Pergolesi's master piece is speaking in a timeless language that is not connected to any particular era and that the music and dialogues speak in an equally contemporary language to modern day audience and as up-to-date now as they were in the past. Pergolesi pictures desires opposite sexes in a series of sassy dialogues, arias and duets that is unparalleled in the operatic literature.
Together with a team of dedicated young professionals we are venturing into this project with a vision that we can make a difference. The premiere is scheduled for Saturday, November 15th at Theater Pantalone in Ijsselstein at the outskirts of Utrecht.
The best part is that you too and indeed anyone on this planet can make a difference too by joining us in our adventure. So do not hesitate and go to our crowd campaign page & become one of our supporters today.