Left on read – a mini-opera

Not a heavy, long, sitting-down-for-three-hours kind of opera. Brief. Up close. In the middle of your museum.

Kind Of Opera has created a new type of experience in partnership with young people from all over the country. About being ‘left on read’, about overthinking, about the noisy silence while waiting and seeing the three dots appear and disappear. 

With music performed by Concerto Copenhagen and an opera singer right in front of you, the opera puts waiting time centre stage. Maybe this is the first time you experience an opera. It’s a pretty great place to start.

During K7 WEEK, Kind Of Opera in collaboration with K7 and Concerto Copenhagen invites you to experience a new kind of opera, created with young people and based on their personal experiences, thoughts and stories. 

Here, the intense emotions of the Baroque era meet today’s reality, as silence, expectations and longing play out in a space in between messages, thoughts and doubt.

Based on the French composer Rameau’s mini-opera L’Impatience, waiting time is explored on stage as a psychological state: from falling in love to feelings of uncertainty, from hope to overthinking. Who knew that ghosting was just as big an issue during the 18th century?

Kind Of Opera is an opera company that rethinks what opera can be. They create new formats in cooperation with the audience, often outside the classic stages, and aim to make opera more engaging, experimental and relevant to a new generation.

The performance was produced by Alice Bier Zandén and combines the Baroque period with the modern world, enabling the audience to identify with the story and with the characters’ feelings and expressions.

Concerto Copenhagen is one of Europe’s leading Baroque orchestras. They are known for their energetic and contemporary approach to classical music and for bringing it close to the audience.

During K7 WEEK, you can see David Bendix Nielsen on cembalo, Fredrik Bock on lute and Pernille Petersen on recorder along with the singer Joseph Mossop. Joseph Mossop is a tenor who performs with the vocal ensemble ÆTLA and DR Koncertkoret and as an opera soloist.