Trond Reinholdtsen: The Norwegian Opra
Research Fellow at Norwegian Academy of Music
The project will consist in forming and running a complete opera house which during three years will produce (at least) ten new ”opras”. The composer and researcher Trond Reinholdtsen will be the dictatorial opera director, composer, main performer, director and producer, but will also invite artists to take part in different forms of collaborations unique for each production.
The opra directors living-room in Gamlebyen, Oslo will function as the opera house and stage, with all the opera house’s traditional functions potentially intact, like PR-department, restaurant, programme book-publisher and workers union, where the whole structure of the institution will be artistically exploited. The opras will be very different in format, from large scenical productions and guest plays (”The Norwegian Opra on tour”), to conceptual sketches, recorded invisible operas and musical performances. The main aim for the project will be to investigate possibilities for radical and unexpected ways of understanding opera as an artistic art genre by approaching the whole apparatus of opera as an experimental field.
www.thenorwegianopra.no.