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The Knife to release opera
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 7 January 2010
The Knife will release a recording of their opera, ‘Tomorrow, In A Year’, in March. Commissioned by Danish performance group Hotel Pro Forma and based on Charles Darwin’s ‘On The Origin Of The Species’, the project was written in collaboration with Mt Sims and Planningtorock and received its live premier in Copenhagen on the 2 Sep last year.
Says the duo’s Olof Dreijer: “At first it was very difficult as we really didn’t know anything about opera. We’d never been to one. I didn’t even know what the word libretto meant. But after some studying, and just getting used to opera’s essence of pretentious and dramatic gestures, I found that there is a lot to learn and play with. In fact, our ignorance gave us a positive respectless approach to making opera. It took me about a year to become emotionally moved by an opera singer and now I really do. I really like the basic theatrical values of opera and the easy way it brings forward a narrative. We’ve approached this before in The Knife but never in such a clear way”.
The album will be released via Brille Records on 1 Mar. You can stream and/or download a track from it here.
