The first Production of Suitcase Opera is behind us! We had a small tour with Christmas Opera Amahl och Nattgästerna from G.C. Menotti. We had a great time organizing and performing in Örnsköldsvik, Skellefteå and Umeå. In every city we worked together with another chorus. Our young talented theater director for this project, Åsa Jönsson, worked a whole day with every chorus (they studied the music themselves) and it resulted in an performance open to audience the same evening! We are very grateful for the wonderful response we got from our audience, young and old. Next year we will go on tour again, we already have performances planned!
The project (- more information in Swedish) was our first ‘participation opera project’. It means that we work together with amateur choir singers in a further professional production, the idea is that the choir can learn from this new experience, so it’s actually an educational project. It gave us a lot of energy!
Every year Suitcase Opera will organize one or even two participation opera projects.
Magical Kings and me as the little crippled boy Amahl ( ©Marco Feklistoff)