Opera got dragged through a warehouse rave and came out revolutionary.
A collectively made filmic opera in 35 parts. The Black and predominantly queer art collective, an evolving line up of poets and artists from across the world, abstracts and reimagines opera in any traditional conception. Set to hip-hop, blues, noise, R&B and electronica, the piece uses the voice (chanting, singing, screaming; written by poet and activist Dawn Lundy Martin) as its primary tool, verbalising centuries of alienation, vulnerability and protest in the global African diaspora through its disruptive libretto.
Sound
Hip-hop, noise, and blues collide into something opera never saw coming.
Writing
Dawn Lundy Martin's libretto weaponizes voice against centuries of silence.
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