Goldstar has UniverSoul Circus reviews, seat locations, and deals on tickets. The Malmo Opera production is available for live streaming. Get discount UniverSoul Circus tickets for Benedict College Stadium Columbia. As a part of the Kennedy Center’s 50th Anniversary season, Hwang will partner with composer Huang Ruo on a new opera.Ĭircus Days & Nights will open at Malmo Opera prior to beginning a world tour through Asia, Europe, and North America. Hwang has another upcoming opera commission at the Kennedy Center. He is also America’s most-produced living opera librettist, whose works have been honored with two Grammy Awards, and he co-wrote the Gold Record Solo with the late pop star Prince. Hwang is a Tony Award winner and three-time nominee, a three-time OBIE Award winner, and a three-time Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama. Butterfly, Chinglish, Yellow Face, Kung Fu, Golden Child, The Dance and the Railroad, and FOB, as well as the Broadway musicals Elton John & Tim Rice’s Aida (co-author), Flower Drum Song (2002 revival) and Disney’s Tarzan. Recent scenic renderings show a floating cloud, which performers will fly upon during the performance.ĭavid Henry Hwang is a playwright, screenwriter, television writer, and librettist, whose stage works include the plays M. Flying features will soar above the audiences and a human cannonball will emerge during the course of the opera. The stage will become a circus arena with tents, ropes, seesaws and trapeze bars. Malmo Opera is transforming the performing space for Hwang’s opera to become an experiential journey. The opera plays out Lax’s journey through the enchanting world of the circus. Lax views acrobatics and circus art the narrative of a metaphor for life and human endeavor: the tent that is torn down and rebuilt before each new performance, the artists' endeavor to achieve perfection, triumphs and failures. The opera follows Lax when he was a young reporter who joined a circus company in 1940s America. Co-produced by Cirkus Cirkör and Malmö Opera, the collaboration will feature a unique fusion of circus and opera.Ĭircus Days & Nights is based on a collection of poems by American poet Robert Lax. A former astronaut hits the road with his Rhodesian ridgebacks on an emotional trip to honor his friends, the deceased crew of space shuttle Columbia. Circus Days & Nights is a new opera by the legendary composer Philip Glass, Associate Professor and librettist David Henry Hwang, and circus director Tilde Björfors.

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