It is not easy to fight Mozart. Paris will host the latest opera of Deimona Olbarna, the leader of Gorillaz leader Deimona

It is safe to say that Diamond Olbarna is the most versatile modern musician whose talent scale allows him not to think about genres and other creativity in braking prejudices. Now a group Blur and Gorillaz The leader calls the listeners on their electrical opera Magic flute 2. Curse/The Magic Flute II: La Malédiction World premiere on March 27 at the Paris Theater Fly In the countryside of the eliz. Deimon Olbarna himself will also be played. There are four performances in Paris until March 30. The opera will sound in English.

Goethe dreams come true

The idea of ​​the project belongs to French producer and Impressive Jean -Lik Choplen, who has previously collaborated with Dimon Olbarn. When Jean -Lick Shopplay led the Theater in Paris, it staged Deimon Olbarna’s magnificent musical performance Monkey. A journey to the west/Monkey: Journey to the Westbased on the story of the King of Monkeys in Chinese Culture, Lewis Carroll’s Work Inspired Miracle/WONDER.LAND and a tribute to African culture and history Boli flight/Le Vol du boli.

Monkey. A journey to the west is the first Deimon Olbarna opera, its premiere at the Manchester International Festival in 2007. Four years later, this festival premiered the musician’s next opera Doctor di/Dr deein which Diamon Olbarn has studied rituals and symbolism in England’s history for five centuries, based on the biography of astrologer, alchemist, mathematician and spy, Doctor John. These are all very theatrical works (they can also be called musicals) in which the talent of Diamon Olbarna melodic.

Opera Magic flute 2. Curse The libretto is written by British Jeremy Sems, who is as multifaceted artist as Dimon Olbarn – he is a composer, a master of orchestra, a musical group leader, a theater director, a text author, a translator of the play and an opera libretto. What is the new work storyline? Once upon a time, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe had planned to create composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and librettist Emmanuel Chican The magic flute continued and has left a small scenario. Goethe sketches are based on Jeremy Semsa’s libretto.

Producer Jean -Lick Shoplen reveals his intention: Tibingen’s bell tower About Friedrich Helderlin, I learned that one evening in Tibingen had Helderlin, Schiller and Goethe. Goethe told them that Mozart writes The magic flute Continued. It suggested my curiosity and I started looking for Goethe sketches. Soon I was convinced that there was a chance to create an opera that Goethe had dreamed of – this is a fairy tale of the pair initiation, echoes Mason’s favorite stories and the passion for ancient Egypt of that time, and Christoph Martin Vilanda’s fairy tale collection is felt. GinistanJean -Terrasson’s novel Seta’s life and self -geth Faust The spirit of the second part. I invited Dimon Olbarn to compose music and asked Jeremy Sams to write a libretto, following Goethe’s notes. In this work, the prophecies of Helderlin and Goethe can come true. To paraphrase Benou Shantro, the electrocera speaks of a possible « European Night ». At a time when glaciers are melting and the cities are burning, the new fairy tale encourages us to think about our world and provides moral teaching about courage and optimism. « 

Abduction during the rave

In the 1990s, Diamon Olbarn conquered the world of groups Blur composed and created a British phenomenon. Creating a virtual group GorillazHe has become even more popular in the 21st century. In parallel, Diamond Olbarn has also gone to other searches – with Tony Allen and Paul Simonon established an association The Good, the Bad and the Queenperformed with Mali and Syrian musicians, released solo albums and produced other artists (including Fatumata Diavara, Amadou & Mariam and bobby vomac) records. 2023 Blur released his ninth studio album The Ballad of Darren And went on a world tour. The two shows at the London Wembley Stadium were captured in a concert film, which was also screened in Latvian cinemas last year.

Diamond Olbarna does not hide – he is happy if he has the opportunity to change and not do the same thing all the time. It is perfectly understandable that the will to do something very different after Blur’s album and the big tour. « The thought I will write The magic flute The sequel, it sounds ridiculous – it was at the beginning, and so it is still. In the process, I had to fight not only with Mozart’s genius, but also with Goethe. When I had to understand how I could do it at all, the answer came from an amazing but no less genius source – groups Kraftwerk Creative work, « says Diamond Olbarn.

The author of the opera libretto Jeremy Sems admits that he had never heard of Goethe’s plans to create a continuation of the magic flute. While getting to know them, he was inspired by Goethe’s idea: « Papageno and papagen creates a singing bird – a child – a family. Tamino and unable to calm each other because they have a stolen child because of the curse. In the roads that surprise and, hopefully, there is a hijacking bird, a hysterical man in the queen and the end of the world. Magic flute 2 There is a wonderfully strange – almost as strange as the original. « 

Electrooper Magic flute 2. Curse has been staged by British and French director Olivier Fredia. The costumes have been created by Deimon Olbarna’s daughter Mission Olbarna.

Premiere
Magic flute 2. Curse

In the theater Fly Paris 27-30 March
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