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Composer．
Librettist．
Music Director
Mark Chan
(Singapore) |
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Director．
Digital Imagery
Designer
Casey Lim
(Singapore) |
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Soprano
Judith Dodsworth
(Australia) |
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Tenor
Xie Kun
(Australia) |
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Baritone
Paul Hughes
(Australia) |
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Opiume, produced by Singapore's critically acclaimed Checkpoint Theatre, is a chamber opera with a 21st Century twist. It features an instantly accessible score and libretto, plus hi-tech digital art, videos and motion graphics that redefine theatre space.
Created by composer/librettist Mark Chan and director/digital video artist Casey Lim, the work takes the Opium War, the “first drug war” in history, as its backdrop. But this is no history lesson on morality. What really stands out here – kaleidoscopic visuals aside – is the alluringly romantic music.
With the focus on East-West fusion, the music calls to the emotions with its re-inventions of melodic and harmonic forms drawn from different cultures. Performers are also diverse but with a strong Asian presence: the T'ang Quartet from Singapore; Chinese instrumentalists and a percussionist from Hong Kong; and opera singers from Australia.
Free of Asian musical clichés, and any political/historical rhetoric, this cross-media masterpiece reinvigorates a Western art form to give a voice to new generations throughout the region.
Production Designer
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Goh Boon Teck (Singapore) |
Lighting Designer
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Dorothy Png ( Singapore) |
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Mandy Tam |
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Musicians
T'ang Quartet．Belinda Foo [Piano]（Singapore）
Margie Tong [Percussion]．Loo Sze-wang [Sheng]
Chu Siu-wai [Dizi / Xiao]．
Law Hang-leung [Guan / Suona] |
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| 5-6.11.2004 |
Fri-Sat 8 pm
Kwai Tsing Theatre Auditorium |
$240 $160 $100 |
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Programme duration is about 1 hour and 40 minutes without intermission.
In English with Chinese and English surtitles.
Post-performance Meet-the-artist Session on 5 November. |
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Opiume was premiered at the Singapore Arts Festival 2004
Jointly presented by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department and the Singapore Arts Festival
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Jointly presented by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department and the Singapore Arts Festival |
