Arcade: A Guide to the Operas in the Doctoral Project

Hedvig Jalhed

This exposition is a guide to the four ludo-immersive chamber operas in the doctoral project An Operatic Game-Changer. The operas were created during the period 2016–2020 and are contextualized and discussed in the dissertation with the same title, in which the practice of facilitating operas as adventures rather than spectacles is fleshed out. Through these participatory and multi-disciplinary concepts, conceived with the purpose of generating and analyzing live encounters between professional opera artists and co-playing visitors, immersive features are realized and explored. Arcade is also a kaleidoscopic performance and an exhibition, designed as an operatic amusement park in miniature, with artefacts and excerpts from the operas, and presented live in connection with the public defense of the thesis in 2022 at the Academy of Music and Drama in Gothenburg. This online resource functions as an archive of information about the operatic works and their performances, both for those attending the performance/exhibition in Gothenburg, and for those wanting to learn about the project without experiencing this event.

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MUSICAL OPENING FROM THE OPERA:

INFORMATION FOR VISITORS:

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SOUND CLIP WITH CANE WALK:

SOUND CLIP WITH CLIMAX:

DOCUMENTARY PHOTOS:

VIDEO COLLAGE:

VIDEO COMPILATION WITH ARTISTS' VIEW THROUGH IR-CAMERAS:

Read about In the Darkness, Everything Went All Black in the book An Operatic Game-Changer, pp. 152–169.

EXHIBITED CONTENT ON THIS PAGE:

Musical opening from the opera
Information for visitors
Sound clip with cane walk
Sound clip with climax
Documentary photos
Video collage
Video compilation with artists' view through IR-cameras

ARTIST CREDITS:

Mattias Rylander (set designer), Jörgen Dahlqvist (librettist), Kent Olofsson (composer and live-electronic musician), Hedvig Jalhed (opera singer), Agnes Wästfelt (opera singer)

All artists and visitors appearing in solo actions in the documentary recordings have given their written consent for the material to be published as part of the research project.

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