New Opera: Kamchatka

Location: Enter the theater on Chrystie Street, between Rivington and Delancey.

Admission: FREE for a limited time. Please email Martha Cargo at mcargo@as-coa.org to register and please indicate your chosen date of performance.

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In collaboration with the Centro de Experimentación del Teatro Colón, Americas Society presents the U.S. premiere production of Daniel D'Adamo's first opera, Kamchatka,​ at Dixon Place (Lower East Side).

This production is part of the New York Opera Fest 2018.

Based on the eponymous novel by Marcelo Figueras, Kamchatka recounts the story of a child whose life changes after the 1976 coup in Argentina, when he suddenly has to leave his house and daily life to live clandestinely and soon to see his parents disappear. Figueras prepared the adaptation of his text and entrusted it to the France-based Argentinean composer Daniel D'Adamo. The composer wrote: “Composing the music of the chamber opera Kamchatka was a real challenge. From the start of the project, it had to be accessible and interesting to all audiences, including young people. The question of the accessibility of the discourse was consequently posed from the outset, and this issue was present throughout the composition process. It allowed me to get to the point, to the heart of the story.” Director Marc Baylet-Delperier places singers and musicians in the center of the space. “Another element of the text took all its meaning in my eyes,” adds Baylet-Delperier. “It is the notion of the ‘disappeared,’ the disappeared [whom] Marcelo Figueras prefers to call ‘los aparecidos’ or ‘the appeared,’ because to [talk about] them amounted to reinventing them.”

With Ezequiel Spucches (musical and artistic direction) and singers Johanne Cassar (soprano), Julien Clément (baritone), and Fabien Hyon (tenor).

Read a review of the opera in Clarín (in Spanish).