Chamber Opera
Musical Direction by Martim Sousa Tavares, Staging by Miguel Loureiro and Movement by Miguel Pereira
Libreto by Rudolph Wurlitzer based on the tale by Franz Kafka
Arriving at a penal colony on an unnamed island, a visitor finds a complex execution engine ready to work on an anonymous convict. Watching over the merciless machine is an officer, the only person who understands how it works and believes in its reason for being.
Based on Franz Kafka’s eponymous short story, adapted by Rudy Wurlitzer and with music by Philip Glass, In The Penal Colony is an intense reflection on the fragile duality of human reason, where the fine line between justice and injustice is explored and crossed with narrative mastery.
Ficha Artística
Tomás Vinhas
© 2000 Dunvagen Music Publishers Inc. Used by Permission
O Rumo do Fumo is financed by República Portuguesa - Cultura | Direção-Geral das Artes
Cronologia
21 June 2024, Centro Cultural Olga Cadaval Festival de Sintra, Sintra/Portugal
2 June 2024, Teatro Municipal Joaquim Benite, Festival dos Capuchos, Almada/Portugal
25 October 2023, Coliseu Porto Ageas, Porto/Portugal
School session 15-16, 22-23 March 2023, Sala Luís Miguel Cintra, Teatro São Luiz, Lisbon/Portugal
Premiere 16-19, 23-26 March 2023, Sala Luís Miguel Cintra, Teatro São Luiz, Lisbon/Portugal