





Kainkollektiv
Black Eurydice
Past dates
4/25/24
8:00 PM
4/26/24
8:00 PM
4/26/24
9:45 PM
9:45 PM
Artist talk
4/27/24
8:00 PM
In BLACK EURYDICE / SCHWARZE EURYDIKE / EURYDICE NOIRE, kainkollektiv investigates the systematic exclusions that occurred with the implementation and emergence of European opera: the position of woman and women and the contemporaneous onset of colonial history. An (Afro)futuristic, feminist, and postcolonial counter opera will be devised from the analysis of Claudio Monteverdi’s “Orfeo”, which may possibly even be the first opera altogether, with its title only naming the male protagonist. Together with five contemporary composers from Cameroon, South Africa, Iran, Canada, and Europe, who overwrite the baroque music with visionary contemporary compositions, a new vision of a future for musical theatre comes up in the form of a digitally drawn live performance superheroine story.