Kosmici w operze
Aliens at the Opera

Summary/Abstract: A review of two opera performances created as part of Project "P" at the Wielki Theater – National Opera: Triumph over the Sun and Solaris, both directed by Krzysztof Garbaczewski (premiere: 26.04.2014). The former is variations on the theme of the Futurist opera of 1913 with scenography and costumes designed by Kazimir Malevich. The second part of the series, focused on the progeric painter Leon Botha, uses the artist's illness as a metaphor for the contemporary world of hyperactive and intensified experience. While the author of the review appreciates the allusions to avant-garde artists and the attempts to inscribe the revolutionary potential of modernism into postmodern ideas, he believes that, contrary to Garbaczewski's intentions, the play is too elitist and hermetic.

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