{"id":25167,"date":"2018-08-15T02:47:41","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T16:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikesydney.com.au\/?p=25167"},"modified":"2018-08-15T02:47:41","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T16:47:41","slug":"cabaret-style-from-millennial-opera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikesydney.com.au\/?p=25167","title":{"rendered":"Cabaret Style From Millennial Opera"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_25168\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25168\" style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-25168\" src=\"https:\/\/soundslikesydney.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Bec-Hart-320x240.jpg\" alt=\"Mezzo-soprano Rebecca Hart\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25168\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mezzo-soprano Rebecca Hart<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Millennial Opera is a cabaret-style show presented as part of the Sydney Fringe Festival. Featuring some of opera&#8217;s greatest arias and duets, with lyrics rewritten to reflect modern themes it will be performed by some of Sydney&#8217;s best young opera singers.<\/p>\n<p>Its writer, Allison Tyra says &#8220;I love the beautiful music of opera, but constantly find myself frustrated by the plots, characters and original lyrics of the works. After attending a production with particularly bad English translations last year, I started wondering why I couldn&#8217;t just re-write the words to create something new. That thought turned into the show we will be staging in September. Subjects range from hipsters and a barista&#8217;s lament to online dating and the trials of adults living with their parents. The music featured will include works like<em>\u00a0Nessun Dorma<\/em>,\u00a0<em>La Donna e Mobile<\/em>, and the <em>Habanera <\/em>from\u00a0<em>Carmen<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While she wrote it partially for her own amusement, her underlying goals were to make opera more accessible by putting it in a more informal setting than a three-hour performance, presenting a greater variety of viewpoints than are typically seen in opera and by making it more meaningful to modern, young audiences.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the new themes tie directly back to the context of the original &#8211; the <em>Jewel Song<\/em>, from <em>Faust,<\/em> for example, is highly narcissistic, making it the natural match for a song about selfies. <em>Il Catalogo<\/em>, from <em>Don Giovanni,\u00a0<\/em>originally about a manservant talking about all the women his master has seduced, has a more positive spin with the singer bragging about all the dogs his friend has rescued. The arrogance of <em>Nessun Dorma<\/em> is reflected in a white man interrupting the female MC to mansplain about how &#8220;woke&#8221; he is. The piece also addresses a few opera cliches, such as the typical casting of mezzo-sopranos as boys and older women. This convention is upended in\u00a0<em>Via resti servita,<\/em> the duet from <em>The Marriage of Figaro<\/em>, with\u00a0the soprano singing the mother&#8217;s part while the mezzo-soprano sings the role of the daughter.<\/p>\n<p>Other popular arias featured include\u00a0<em>Au fond du temple saint <\/em>from<em>\u00a0The Pearlfishers,\u00a0L&#8217;amour est un oiseau rebelle\u00a0<\/em>from Bizet&#8217;s <em>Carmen<\/em> and\u00a0La donna\u00a0\u00e8 mobile from <em>Rigoletto.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Holly Champion is\u00a0director and MC, with pianist Viet-Ahn Nguyen, soprano Jessica Harper, mezzo-soprano Rebecca Hart,\u00a0tenor Claudio Sgaramella and bass Gerard Atkinson.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewsagencyvenue.com\/shows\/milennial\">Bookings<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millennial Opera is a cabaret-style show presented as part of the Sydney Fringe Festival. 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