Tomorrow, in a year: A Darwin Electro-Opera

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The Knife, in collaboration with Mt. Sims and Planningtorock, has just given the conventional opera scene a new cool. Approached by performance group Hotel Pro Forma to score electo-opera “Tomorrow, in a year“, which is based on Charles Darwin and his famous book ‘On the Origin of Species’,  The Knife & gang deftly capture the Darwinian nuances of evolution in their pieces.

In fact, they shared that inspiration had been drawn from sources that vary from the arcane (Richard Dawkins’s gene trees), to the romantic (Darwin’s loving letters to his daughter).

So we aren’t huge opera fanatics, but we can definitely appreciate a project well-done. Judge for yourselves the exquisite play between music and form, and how their synergy brings about a moving and intense performance of avant garde opera.