Mondavi Center Presents
Circa
Opus
10 acrobats and the Debussy String Quartet celebrate the music of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich in a work of stunning power, virtuosity and physical poetry.
Shostakovich’s quartets are by turns intimate, passionate, lyrical, ironic and deeply moving personal testimonies by one of the twentieth century’s greatest composers. Opus explores the complex relationships between the individual and the group, between the march of history and what dictates the heart, and between the tragic and the comic. It’s a melding of music and bodies at the highest level producing a groundbreaking work of intense power, one The Guardian calls “so remarkable as almost to defy description.”
“…an evening so remarkable as almost to defy description… extraordinarily moving.” ★★★★★—The Guardian
Run time is approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes with no intermission
No audience photography or filming is permitted for the safety of the performers
Sponsored by
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The Nancy and Hank Fisher Family Fund
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Western Health
Commissioning credits
A Nuits de Fourvière production/ Département du Rhône, coproduced with Les Théâtres de la ville de Luxembourg, GREC Festival of Barcelona, Le Cirque-Théâtre d’Elbeuf, Dusseldorf Festival, Barbican Theatre, CACCV Espace Jean Legendre-Compiegne. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government’s Major Festivals Initiative, managed by Creative Australia, its arts funding advisory body, in association with the Confederation of Australian International Arts Festivals including Brisbane Festival, Perth International Arts Festival and Melbourne Festival.
Acknowledgments
Circa acknowledges the assistance of the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body and the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland. Quatuor Debussy acknowledge the support of the French Ministry of Arts, Région Rhône-Alpes, City of Lyon and SPEDIDAM.
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