2010 Opera Vista Festival: Anorexia Sacra & Awards Ceremony March 27, 2010

The 2010 Opera Vista Festival comes to a close with the final performance of the winner of the 2009 Vista Competition for New Opera, Anorexia Sacra by Line Tjørnhøj of Denmark, and the announcement of the 2010 Winner, as determined by the audience vote on March 26.

In her work, Line Tjørnhøj strives to confront this tangible human caused “pain” and transforms that energy into a reconciling and creative musical expression. Human suffering can take so many forms and the only “instrument” that is truly capable of displaying this wide spectrum of emotions, is the human voice – doing both, staging the drama, forming the words and simultaneously bringing comfort and healing. This is possible when singers dare to extend their vocal expression beyond pure singing and integrate basic authentic sounds of their voices into the expression: sounds that normally express extreme conditions such as pain, great joy, satisfaction and devotion. This is how the drama – Anorexia Sacra – comes to life on stage.

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