Another small excerpt from our program with @amelielejosne Thank you to @beach_zhe for camera work and color. Excerpted music: Youkali by Kurt Weill (arr. by us and adaptation of text into English by Ema Katrovas) with Moravian folk song and French popular song thrown in (see end for full credits) #onetake #eclecticmusic #classicalmusicvideo #voiceanddoublebass #accordion

Rehearsal moments showing the various music we perform with @amelielejosne #rehearsaltime #rehearsal (some camera work by @beach_zhe)

Première présentation publique d’un petit extrait du spectacle Diva Lazarus créé par @contreouvert (@silviaberrone, @lucie.mao) au sein du @festivalbaraktheatre #théâtredelarue #streettheatre

Hier à Corbeil-Essonnes, un petit concert d’extraits de *Lignes de faille / Fault Lines* avec @amelielejosne au @festivalbaraktheatre avec le collectif @contreouvert / Small concert of folk, jazz and cabaret songs yesterday in the south of Paris at the BarakTheatre festival. #concert #voiceanddoublebass

Just got dress rehearsal photos. So thankful for the precious “empty space” I got to create Diva Lazarus. Really hoping to develop this show further and bring it to wider audiences one day 🤞🏻 Credit: Festival Les Fabricants – CNSMD Lyon 2024 © Antoine Boureau @theatrelarenaissance @cnsmdlyon_ad

C’est parti – le festival Les Fabricants démarre ce soir ! DIVA LAZARUS aura sa première dans le cadre du festival ce vendredi 3 mai à 20h au @theatrelarenaissance grâce à @cnsmdlyon_ad Ema Katrovas, texte, mise en scène, chant Silvia Berrone, musique électronique #newtheatre #theatreproduction #soloshow #operasingersofinstagram

Very fun to be experimenting with Silvia Plath’s “Lady Lazarus” in a superb setting for solo voice by Aribert Reimann and asking myself what I can do that isn’t usually done on lyric stages: What if I sing inside a box? Can I sing while doing a reverse plank on a flightcase? Can I sing with my face in water? What if I take this an octave down and sing it like it’s jazz? What if I do a magic trick while singing? All this will be part of a bigger show called DIVA LAZARUS which will also include footage from interviews with Maria Callas, Cathy Berberian, Nina Simone and Marina Abramović along with original texts. This is ALL only thanks to the artist diploma program at the CNSMD in Lyon @cnsmdlyon_ad to which I am so so thankful – and thank you @qingqing_teng for your feedback along the way. #silviaplath #contemporaryclassicalmusic #theaterexperiment #poetrysettomusic #rehearsal

So, I guess this is finally happening – the new Museum of Literature (muzeumliteratury.cz) created by the Památník národního písemnictví (Monument of National Literature) will be opening its doors on October 18th. One of the, I believe, permanent exemplars in the museum will be a video installation created as an homage ta collaboration between poet Vítězslav Nezval, dancer Milča Mayerová, and visual artist Karel Tiege which resulted in Abeceda (1926), a series of poems, “dance compositions,” and photomontages on each of the letters of the alphabet. Here are a few stills from our video-homage (featuring the haunting paintings of Vladimír Houdek) as well as some of the originals we are paying homage to. Our team (alphabetically): Vladimír Houdek @vladimir.houdek , painter Ema Katrovas, singer/composer Ivan Svoboda, videographer Hana Turečková, dancer/choreographer Zvláštní poděkování Haně Turečkové za pozvání do tohoto projektu a za nápad složit “hlasové kompozice” k těm tanečním! ❤️

So I guess it’s official – next May, my intellectual/adoptive aunt Patricia Hampl – one of my favorite writers and favorite people – will be presenting a kind of musical reading called “My Life in Music” with the @schubertclub It’s an honor to be included in this wonderful program – which I will not so much be headlining as interjecting with Czech songs and arias. Thank you @operawire and David Salazar for the feature in your wonderful Indie Opera section! Looking forward to next spring.