Ebook: Halka/Haiti: 18°48'05"N 72°23'01"W
- Year: 2015
- Publisher: Zachęta—National Gallery of Art / Inventory Press
- City: Warsaw / New York, NY
- Language: English
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Artists C.T. Jasper and Joanna Malinowska and curator Magdalena Moskalewicz, decided to stage the opera in Haiti inspired by the mad plan of Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo, who wanted to build an opera house in the Amazon. Fascinated by Fitzcarraldo’s faith in the universal power of opera, but not uncritical of the colonizing aspect of his actions, they decided to reveal and undercut its romanticism by confronting a set of very specific geographic, historical, and sociopolitical realities.
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