Well nowadays everybody seems to be writing an opera , to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin's The Origin of the Species . The Danish theatre group Hotel Pro Forma invited Olof Dreijer and Karin Dreijer Andersson to "write music and libretto for Tomorrow, In a Year, a Darwin Opera." The opera will be titled "Tomorrow, In A Year." The production for the opera is described in the Hotel Pro Forma website saying it "uses Darwin's way of observing and describing the world. Change as a process and the interrelationship of all things is the basic material of the performance...Tomorrow, in a Year points to evolution as a field of possibilities, where nature unfolds its great liberality, finding niches and new paths. The musical and visual components of the performance are shown as fragments, as parts of the world that are uncovered and studied. A recognisable sequence emerges, only to mutate and change into a number of subsequent species. There is a development from preliminaries to totality to renewed change." It also talks about the bands contribution: "The Swedish music group the Knife creates completely new compositions that challenge the conventional conception of opera. The form is experimental and exploratory. The music is written for three singers who come from different backgrounds: electronica pop, classical opera, and performance. They are the protagonists of the performance, displaying three ways of experiencing the world. They are the spokesman, the organiser, and the one who acts. They are structure, sensation, form, time, and thought." Olof is currently "at a field... in the Amazon, to record animals, fish, and plants." Sister Karin is taking publicity stills like the one you see below and working on a solo project called Fever Ray .


The Knife - Neverland [zshare]