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Chornobyldorf. Archaeological opera
Chornobyldorf is a multi-level cultural project of Roman Hryhoriv and Illia Razumeiko, which combines live opera, virtual reality, an anthropological museum and the Chornobyldorf Culture Research Institute.
Chornobyldorf is a multi-level cultural project of Roman Hryhoriv and Illia Razumeiko, which combines live opera, virtual reality, an anthropological museum and the Chornobyldorf Culture Research Institute.
Our agency provided:
• logistical support of the entire project, including the 3-day performance premiere at the Art Arsenal in Kyiv;
• accommodation, catering and transportation for the team and stage props;
• financial and grant management, artist management, organization of expeditions around Ukraine, rehearsal support, assistance to directors, targeted advertising and branding.
While researching and constructing a cultural post-apocalypse, the creative group carried out several video-archaeological expeditions. They covered special post-industrial zones: the Chornobyl exclusion zone, the coast of the Kakhovka Sea (opposite to the Energodar NPP) and the Kryvyi Rih Iron Ore Basin.
During these expeditions, the team collected valuable artifacts, which later served as a basis for the Chornobyldorf Anthropological Museum. They also recorded video novels that became an important component of the opera.
The musical language of the opera is based on the integration of folklore material of the Dnipro-Dunay basin (from Polissia to the Adriatic coast of Bosnia) with microtonal music and deconstructed quotations from the classical-romantic era.
Organizers: PORTO FRANKO, Mystetskyi Arsenal, proto produkсiia, NOVA OPERA, Musiktheatertage WIEN. With the financial support of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation.
The opera is rich in atypical and prepared traditional instruments: microtonal bandura and cymbals, alpine zither, gusli, kantele, morin-khur (Mongolian folk two-string cello), Rhea-player algorithmic piano by Austrian inventor Winfried Ritch.
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