Artist

Admin

Conductor

Yoel Gamzou

Stage director

Marina Abramović

Set designer

Anna Schöttl

Costume designer

Riccardo Tisci for Burberry

Lighting designer

Urs Schönebaum

Video designer

Marco Brambilla

Sound designer

Luka Kozlovacki

Singer

Soprano

Marie Smolka

Violetta Valéry

Eliza Boom

Floria Tosca

Nadezhda Karyazina

Carmen

Performance

Nina Bernsteiner

Desdemona

Emily Pogorelc

Norma

Olga Kulchynska

Cio-Cio-San

Dramaturge

Benedikt Stampfli

Nina Minasyan

Lucia Ashton

Bayerische Staatsoper

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Opéra National de Paris

Greek National Opera

Orchestra

Ludwig Orchestra

Koninklikjes Theater Amsterdam

Gran Teatre del Liceu

Teatro di San Carlo

Koninklijk Theater Carré

Revival Director

Georgine Balk

Spoken

Willem Dafoe

Actor

Italian

7 Deaths of Maria Callas

Amsterdam

Netherlands

7 Deaths of Maria Callas: 7 Deaths of Maria Callas

Public

Private

English

Approved

Tickets en info: https://carre.nl/voorstelling/7-deaths-of-maria-callas Na uitverkochte zalen in Napels, Parijs en Berlijn staat de performance-opera '7 Deat...

Having attracted sold-out theatres in Naples, Berlin and Paris, this opera project The 7 Deaths of Maria Callas will enjoy its Dutch premiere exclusively in Carré Amsterdam on four nights. This opera is a performance with live music by internationally renowned sopranos. The orchestra's conductor is Yoel Gamzou. Abramovic herself will both be present live and also together with actor Willem Dafoe on-screen. 

***** Bach Track: ‘Truthful and mesmerising declaration of love to Callas’

At the intersection of opera, performance and video art, 7 Deaths of Maria Callas pays tribute to the legacy of Greek-American soprano Maria Callas. Seven of her death scenes from her most iconic roles are reinterpreted by Abramović. This opera experience combines famous arias from La Traviata, Tosca, Otello, Madame Butterfly, Carmen, Lucia di Lammermoor and Norma with new music by Marko Nikodijević, sung by sopranos Nina Bernsteiner, Nadezhda Karyazina, Olga Kulchynska, Nina Minasyan, Emily Pogorelc, Marie Smolka and Eliza Boom. The "final" death is by Callas herself.

Marina Abramovic is widely known for her confrontational performance artwork in which human endurance is key. Her most famous work is no doubt The artist is present (2010) at the MOMA in New York where she sat on a chair for about 850 hours and looked people into their eyes. Her other work often has confrontational characteristics too, and the members of the audience also play a role in it. Before she moved to New York in 1991, she lived in Amsterdam for 25 years.

7 Deaths of Maria Callas by Nikodijević, From (2022/2022), Directed by Marina Abramović,, Conductor Yoel Gamzou, Koninklijk Theater Carré, Amsterdam, Netherlands

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