About the production
In this multidisciplinary OperaLab.ch creation, Marie Hamard performs the role of Emma. Huit Minutes combines voice, theatre, movement and music in a contemporary operatic form conceived beyond traditional boundaries.
Production details
- Composer
- Leonardo Marino
- Role
- Emma
- Libretto / text
- Pablo Jakob Montefusco
- Stage director
- François Renou
- Conductor
- Clément Power
- Duration
- 1 hr 30 min
- Production
- OperaLab.ch — Grand Théâtre de Genève, Comédie de Genève, HEAD, HEM, La Manufacture, Institut littéraire suisse et Flux Laboratory
Video
Huit Minutes — Emma
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Synopsis
Each night, Patricia calls her sister Irène and returns to the same questions about loneliness, anxiety and the possibility of another world. To symbolically prevent the sun from disappearing, the characters invent a ceremony combining song, dance, music and spoken word. Huit Minutes uses contemporary opera to explore our need for ritual, belief and renewal.