As if it wasn’t already marked on your calendar, November 2009 will mark the 150th anniversary since Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species, establishing the theory of evolution as we know it today. The Opera is called Tomorrow, In A Year and its ambitious influences are,

“Change as a process and the interrelationship of all things is the basic material of the performance.”
- hotelproforma.dk

This is particularly exciting because we haven’t had any new material from The Knife for quite some time and because the two electronic wizards are probably the only acts I can imagine pulling of something as grandiose as a Darwin inspired Opera. Not surprisingly the Opera will be exploratory and “challenge the conventional conception of opera”. The opera will have a Japanese choreographer by the name of Hiroaki Umeda and will feature three protagonist singers from three different backgrounds electronica pop, classical opera and performance. They’ve even sent a man named Olof Dreijer into the depths of the Amazon rain forest to record sounds of animals fish and plants. Not sure what sounds the plants are making but we’ll soon see. Let’s hope that the performance is recorded well and made readily available for those of us unable to jettison to Copenhagen for the September 2009 premier.

The Knife – Pass this on (zshare)

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