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Date(s) - 11/01/2013
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Georges Aperghis is a Greek composer born in Athens in 1945, he has lived and worked in Paris since 1963.
Since the early 2000s, classifying Georges Aperghis’s works in three distinct domains is more confusing than ever because of their very nature. Die Hamletmaschine (2001), an oratorio based on Heiner Muller’s work; Dark Side (2004), a “monodrama” based on Aeschylus’ Oresteia; Avis de tempête (2004), an opera; perhaps even Wölfli Kantata (2006), a cantata after Adolf Wölfli’s writings; or Happiness Daily (2009), for soprano, mezzo-soprano and ensemble; all of them challenge the issues of drama, of performance, of staging, and they illustrate the freedom with which Georges Aperghis plays on classification and genre, in the performing arts as well as the theater.
A prolific composer with a never-ending inventiveness, Georges Aperghis is building a very personal corpus of works, serious and humorous at the same time, rooted in tradition as well as free of institutional constraints. Knowledgeably opening up unexpected horizons of vitality and ease for his performers, he skillfully reconciles the sound and the visual, as much as he broaches issues embedded in the tragic or derisory aspects of his time. In October 2011, Georges Aperghis received the Mauricio Kagel’s Prize.
Marja Liisa Kay, soprano, is deeply dedicated to the performance and promotion of contemporary music, yet enjoys singing works within all genres. She has premiered Principle roles in a number of new operas including the world premiere of Michael Gordon and Richard Foreman’s What to Wear; the Swedish premiere of Anne Le Baron’s cyber-erotic opera, Sucktion, at the Connect Festival in Mälmö; the North American Premiere of Georges Aperghis’ Sextuor: L’Origin des Especes; and the world premiere of Anne Le Baron’s WET.
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