music theatre for soprano, electronics and video
concept, composition, direction, video: Falk Hübner
voice, performance: Cora Schmeiser
assistence: Nadya van’t Hoff
produced by Theater Zeebelt Den Haag
with kind support of: ArtEZ conservatory Arnhem, OCW Rotterdam
NewsReal is an audio visual chamber opera by Falk Hübner and soprano Cora Schmeiser. In NewsReal, an incessant flow of information tries to finds its way in the life of a soprano.
Internet in our pockets, the newspaper in our bags, tv in the train. News have never been this close to us before. But do we actually manage to process all that information in just one day? And do we finally know more since information became that easily accessible?
A classic chamber opera rapidly changes into a complex interaction between singing, images and – literally – today’s news. Cora Schmeiser sings short stories of news-characters like the young Iranian martyr Mehrdad Azizollahi and the wife of the Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo; stories that gradually intertwine and thus turn into an overwhelming torrent of news that goes right through the singer, making her stagger, shimmer, doubt, laugh and fall. The music features a intriguing mix of jazz-sounds, blended with electronics and classical singing.
Performance history
11.12.2010 Theater Zeebelt Den Haag (research)
7.12.2012 Theater Zeebelt Den Haag
8.12.2012 Theater Zeebelt Den Haag
11.1.2013 OCW Rotterdam
12.1.2013 OCW Rotterdam
13.1.2013 OCW Rotterdam
Falk Hübner 