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This September 18-20 at Studio Boekman: How do you rock your baby to sleep while the howls of protest are flooding through the window? Can you soothe your child at all, as the fight for its future rages all around you?
Lullaby follows a woman caught between her safe world at home and the urge to join the revolution going on outside in the streets. Looking for a lullaby to calm herself and her baby, they venture out into the night. What unfolds is a confronting and unexpected journey, which ultimately provides her with both the song and a personal (r)evolution.
Lullaby was written for award-winning soprano Laura Bohn, with music by composer Kamala Sankaram. The music creates a soundscape out of meditative lullabies, protest songs and jazzy rhythms, in which voice, viola and keyboard deftly come together. Librettist Guillermo Calderón’s lyrics are playful, sometimes absurd, but also hopeful and, above all, incredibly honest. Co-creator and director Sjaron Minailo – known for his distinctive visual and minimalist style – translates the monodrama into an opera that slowly unfolds like a thriller...
This September 18, 19 & 20 at 20:00 at the Studio Boekman of the Dutch National Opera & Ballet...
Lullaby
A sung monodrama in one act
Composer Kamala Sankaram
Libretto Guillermo Calderón
Co-creator, director & co-producer Sjaron Minailo
Soprano Laura Bohn
Viola Gijs Kramers
Piano Jelena Popovic
https://www.operaballet.nl/en/dutch-national-opera/2024-2025/lullaby
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Dutch National Opera and Ballet, H&M, Dam, 1012 Amsterdam, Nederland,Amsterdam, Netherlands
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