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In 1950 debut playwright Eugene Ionesco's avant-garde play, The Bald Soprano, stirred a sensation in Paris, and has been hailed as an "intensely amusing mixture of social satire, Alice in Wonderland-type logic, verbal delirium and surrealist farce." For the fiftieth anniversary of this founding work of the Theater of the Absurd, The Center for Contemporary Opera has adapted the play, featuring music by American composer Martin Kalmanoff and state-of-the- art video techniques. The young and talented cast offers solid vocal artistry and perfectly-pitched comic acting, resulting in a delightful comic opera in English of a major theatrical work. Directed by Ron Myrvik
DVD, NTSC/PAL
Year 1999
Length 62 mins
DVD available from
Europe, UK: artfilms.co.uk/Detail.aspx?ItemID=2871
US, Australia, World: http://www.artfilms.com.au/Detail.aspx?ItemID=2871
STREAMING: artfilms-digital.com
In 1950 debut playwright Eugene Ionesco's avant-garde play, The Bald Soprano, stirred a sensation in Paris, and has been hailed as an "intensely amusing mixture of social satire, Alice in Wonderland-type logic, verbal delirium and surrealist farce." For the fiftieth anniversary of this founding work of the Theater of the Absurd, The Center for Contemporary Opera has adapted the play, featuring music by American composer Martin Kalmanoff and state-of-the- art video techniques. The young and talented cast offers solid vocal artistry and perfectly-pitched comic acting, resulting in a delightful comic opera in English of a major theatrical work. Directed by Ron Myrvik
DVD, NTSC/PAL
Year 1999
Length 62 mins
DVD available from
Europe, UK: artfilms.co.uk/Detail.aspx?ItemID=2871
US, Australia, World: http://www.artfilms.com.au/Detail.aspx?ItemID=2871
STREAMING: artfilms-digital.com
