Arcade: A Guide to the Operas in the Doctoral Project

Hedvig Jalhed

This exposition is a guide to the four ludo-immersive chamber operas in the doctoral project An Operatic Game-Changer. The operas were created during the period 2016–2020 and are contextualized and discussed in the dissertation with the same title, in which the practice of facilitating operas as adventures rather than spectacles is fleshed out. Through these participatory and multi-disciplinary concepts, conceived with the purpose of generating and analyzing live encounters between professional opera artists and co-playing visitors, immersive features are realized and explored. Arcade is also a kaleidoscopic performance and an exhibition, designed as an operatic amusement park in miniature, with artefacts and excerpts from the operas, and presented live in connection with the public defense of the thesis in 2022 at the Academy of Music and Drama in Gothenburg. This online resource functions as an archive of information about the operatic works and their performances, both for those attending the performance/exhibition in Gothenburg, and for those wanting to learn about the project without experiencing this event.

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MUSICAL AMBIENCE FROM THE OPERA:

INFORMATION FOR VISITORS, ORIGINAL VERSION, 2017:

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INFORMATION FOR VISITORS, BLACK BOX VERSION, 2018:

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AUDITORY INTRODUCTION, BLACK BOX VERSION, 2018:

DOCUMENTARY PHOTOS:

VIDEO WITH ENSEMBLE CONVERSATION:

VIDEO WITH COMPILATION OF SCENES:

VIDEO WITH VERBALLY INTERVENING VISITOR:

Read about The Architect in the book An Operatic Game-Changer, pp. 118–151.

Please note that The Architect (original Swedish titel: Den tilltalade) was performed in Swedish and all information given to the visitors was in Swedish only.

EXHIBITED CONTENT ON THIS PAGE:

Musical ambience from the opera
Information for visitors, original version, 2017
Information for visitors, black box version, 2018
Auditory introduction, black box version, 2018
Documentary photos
Video with ensemble conversation
Video with compilation of scenes
Video with verbally intervening visitor

ARTIST CREDITS:

John Kinell (librettist and opera singer), Mattias Petersson (composer and live-electronic musician), Hedvig Jalhed (dramaturge and opera singer), David Hornwall (director and opera singer), Agnes Wästfelt (opera singer), Pascal Jardry (electric guitarist), Rickard Stierna (actor), Mattias Rylander (set designer), Kristofer Langerbeck (light designer)

All artists and visitors appearing with solo actions in the documentational recordings have given their written consent for the material to be published as part of the research project.

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