Label: Disquiet Media
Format: DVD music
Barcode: 0608917400328
Catalog number: DQM 03
Releasedate: 29-04-11
Format: DVD music
Barcode: 0608917400328
Releasedate: 29-04-11
The chamber opera One represents a new kind of music multimedia drama. Michel van der Aa’s poetic production of technological virtuosity fuses libretto, video, live music and soundtrack with the soprano voice and stage presence of Barbara Hannigan into ‘One’. Projected images and electronic sounds add emphasis to the onstage performance of the protagonist, while the recorded and live voice interact with incredible synchronicity. One was written in 2002 for the acclaimed soprano Barbara Hannigan, who stars in this recording.
- "One" was written in 2002 for the acclaimed soprano Barbara Hannigan, who stars in this recording
- Upcoming star Van der Aa is a "art omnivore "
- His ability to fuse music, text and visual images into a totally organic whole sets him apart from nearly all his contemporaries
- Composer, film-maker and director Michel van der Aa’ launched his own multimedia label (2010) Disquiet Media
- There are no bounderies for the multi-talented Van der Aa in his art: the ultimate multi-tasker!
- Contemporary and modern in every way
- In 2004 Van der Aa received the Netherlands’ Matthijs Vermeulen Prize for this work
One was written in 2002 for the acclaimed soprano Barbara Hannigan, who stars in this recording. Accompanied only by video and an electronic soundtrack, she plays a solitary woman trapped in a cage of real and ‘captured’ time.
Voices of other women are introduced and slowly she becomes entwined in a strange and mysterious ritual. With One, the first of his three operas to date, Michel van der Aa perfected the fusion of music, text and visual images for which he has become internationally renowned.
One, composed in 2002, was premiered on 12 January 2003 by Barbara Hannigan in the Amsterdam Frascati Theatre. As a result of its successful first tour in the Netherlands, the production has been in great demand abroad and has been performed to critical and audience acclaim in eleven countries, at festivals including the Berliner Festspiele, Paris Festival de L’automne,Oslo Ultima Festival, Warsaw Autumn, and the Venice Biennale.
The work has become a contemporary classic, winning the composer the Netherlands’ Mathijs Vermuelen Prize in 2004.
Voices of other women are introduced and slowly she becomes entwined in a strange and mysterious ritual. With One, the first of his three operas to date, Michel van der Aa perfected the fusion of music, text and visual images for which he has become internationally renowned.
One, composed in 2002, was premiered on 12 January 2003 by Barbara Hannigan in the Amsterdam Frascati Theatre. As a result of its successful first tour in the Netherlands, the production has been in great demand abroad and has been performed to critical and audience acclaim in eleven countries, at festivals including the Berliner Festspiele, Paris Festival de L’automne,Oslo Ultima Festival, Warsaw Autumn, and the Venice Biennale.
The work has become a contemporary classic, winning the composer the Netherlands’ Mathijs Vermuelen Prize in 2004.