Dying for Love (Stockholm)

A celebration of love, death and the opera's ballads... September 3, 4 at 19.30 The House of Dance, The Large Auditorium Swedish première

Dying for love mixes death arias from famous operas like Madam Butterfly, Tosca, Carmen, La Traviata, etc. with the fates of seven opera singers. The opera singers come from Portugal, are between 26 and 68 years old and tell the tale of their life, loves and passions, their careers and misfortunes. Dying for Love is a performance in which almost everyone dies, like in so many operas where the heroine sings herself to death, is stabbed, drowned, torn to pieces and so on.

Idea, production: Carina Reich, Bogdan Szyber

Script: Carina Reich, Bogdan Szyber, the performers, Michael Pastore

Light design: Linus Fellbom

Musical direction: Nicholas McNair

Performers: Elvira Archer, Lia Altavila, Helena Afonso, Susana Teixeira, Marisa Figueira, Catherine Wrey and Liliana Bizineche

Length of performance approx. 75 minutes, no intermission.

Price: SEK 160

Sponsored by the Swedish Institute, the Swedish National Council for Cultural Affairs, The Portuguese Embassy, Tap Air Portugal.

Dying for Love is a work commissioned by the CAPITALS/Gulbenkian Foundation festival, curator Mårten Spångberg.