Synopsis
- It’s a familiar phenomenon to most city dwellers: the window across the way affords a glimpse into a stranger’s life and odd noises issue from the neighbours’ flat. Yet the bulk of the activity remains shrouded in mystery. Finding the missing pieces of the jigsaw puzzle requires imagination rather than knowledge. Was that a real person shrieking or did the noise come from a television? Is the silhouette at the window someone watching me? In their chamber opera PRIVATE VIEW the composer-in-residence at the Muziektheater Transparant, Annelies Van Parys, and Scottish poet Jen Hadfield weave a dense web of Hitchcockian suspense and surprise centring on a neighbourly community in which a murder may or may not have occurred. Who committed the deed and who will the next victim be? Director Tom Creed has teamed up with the Dutch 33 1/3 Collective to create a tense, paranoiac yet humourous atmosphere using music, singers and video projections. The space containing the atmosphere by turns offers and denies insights into the lives of other people, thereby transforming onlookers into voyeurs, accomplices and seekers after truth.
Coproduction with Muziektheater Transparant, Operadagen Rotterdam, Opera Vlaanderen, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Asko|Schönberg, 33 1/3 Collective, National Opera Bergen, Cultuurfonds Oost Nederland, Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg
We are very proud to say that Private View already has won the Fedora Rolf Liebermann prize for opera 2015.
Crew
- Director: Collective 33 1/3 , Tom Creed
- Score: Annelies van Parys
