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COMBUSTIBLE OPERA intends to be an ongoing series of spontaneous opera performance around the city. Singers materialize out of the street to create improvised operatic situations. We post performance times and locations no more than 24 hours ahead of schedule, so keep your eye out for alerts on future happenings. Or simply prepare yourself for when you’re walking down the street and the couple next to you starts fighting...in opera. |
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In a time when public space is under siege by both internal and external fears, suspicions and paranoias, it is increasingly more important to consider who we are or who we become when we enter the public environment of the street. Are the people around us threatening, or are we a threat to them? What are our thoughts when we’re walking through the streets, and what words define us when a new set of rules governs public behavior. VOICEBOX intends to address these questions. It is a mobile opera scene that can be assembled, performed, and disassembled within a narrow window of time anywhere in the city. Experimenting with musical indeterminacy and playing with prepared texts inspired by the experience of being on the streets and found texts that will literally come from the streets, this project will move around the city, creating theatrical spaces out of public spaces, and trying to gauge the sense of a public that must be more self-conscious than ever about stepping out the front door. |
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