The Knife 'Tomorrow, In A Year'

Not content with releasing one of 2009's finest records, albeit under the nom de plum Fever Ray, The Knife are finalising a collaborative operatic work due for premiere on September 2nd, 2009 in Copenhagen. Conceived of as something of a celebration of the anniversary of Darwin's 'On The Origin of the Species' (150 years old in November), the opera is inspired by Darwin's thoughts on evolution. This from the official website......

Tomorrow, in a year is an opera. The opera concept places the performance on a large scale and in a space of reality where expression dominates. The Swedish music group The Knife creates completely new compositions that challenge the conventional conception of opera. The form is experimental and exploratory. 

The music is written for three singers who come from different backgrounds: pop, classical opera and performance. They are the protagonists of the performance, displaying three ways of experiencing the world. They are the spokesman, the organiser, and the one who acts. They are structure, sensation, form, time and thought. 

The Japanese choreographer and dancer Hiroaki Umeda creates the choreography for six dancers of different ages and and physical forms, based on classical and modern dance. They are organisms, raw material, bodies that enter into various contexts; they are main and secondary characters in a changing process.