31st October me and flautist Helen Whitaker will premiere my operatic monodrama Harmljóð Snæfellsjökuls / Glacier’s Elegy at the Reykjavik Opera Days. I am particularly invested in this premiere, as the piece is very personal for me. It addresses, in a poetic and somewhat abstract way, some of the sorrow and powerlessness I have felt over the past few years watching the beautiful glaciers of Iceland receding, diminishing and disappearing due to the environmental crisis.
Glacier's Elegy is an unstaged operatic monodrama for voice, laptop and flute. Glacier's Elegy is a farewell, the final farewell. The Glacier steps forward and addresses humankind for the last time and uses references from several works of Icelandic literature to communicate. The references are from works by romantic poet Steingrímur Thorsteinsson, novelist Halldór Kiljan Laxness, modernist poet Steinn Steinarr, and from Bárðar Saga Snæfellsáss.
More here: https://operudagar.is/en/ljodadagar-2019/vidburdir/harmlj%C3%B3%C3%B0-sn%C3%A6fellsj%C3%B6kuls/
Harmljóð Snæfellsjökuls er ósviðsettur óperískur einleikur fyrir rödd, tölvu og flautu. Harmljóð Snæfellsjökuls er kveðja, hin hinsta kveðja. Jökullinn stígur fram og ávarpar mannkynið í síðasta sinn og notar tilvitnanir í hin ýmsu ritverk sér til stuðnings. Ritverkin eru Bárðar Saga Snæfellsáss, Snæfellsjökull eftir Steingrím Thorsteinsson, Tíminn og Vatnið eftir Stein Steinarr og Vefarinn mikli frá Kasmír eftir Halldór Kiljan Laxness.
Meira hér: https://operudagar.is/is/ljodadagar-2019/vidburdir/harmlj%C3%B3%C3%B0-sn%C3%A6fellsj%C3%B6kuls/
