Maggio/Henriksson: ANIARA in Helsinki with The Crossing and Klockriketeatern

American composer Robert Maggio’s composition ANIARA: fragments of time and space fills the Almi Hall stage with heavenly new music, virtuoso talent and disparate art forms, including a chamber choir of 16 singers and Beijing Opera, which combines singing with physical movement. This holistic synthesis of the arts is based on Harry Martinson’s classic poem Aniara: A Review of Man in Time and Space. It dives deep into the poetic universe of the Nobel laureate author in the spirit of the original work, asking questions about freedom, responsibility and our contradictory love for each other and our planet.

The production also features the Wusheng Company, a Finnish group which specialises in Beijing Opera. The group’s founder and artistic director, Antti Silvennoinen, has a double role in Aniara as both choreographer and performer.

Music Robert Maggio
Librettist and director Dan Henriksson
Conductor Donald Nally
Choreography Antti Silvennoinen (Wusheng Company)
Sound Design Paul Vazquez
Video, lights, sets Joonas Tikkanen
Costumes Erika Turunen

Aniara is a co-production of Klockriketeatern and The Crossing.
Photos by John C. Hawthorne

Read more about Aniara: http://aniara.crossingchoir.org
https://klockrike.fi/fi/tuotannot/aniara_2019/