Dutch National Opera

Lullaby

A solo opera

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Photo: Tessa de Geus

Dates

18-20 September 2024

Location

Dutch National Opera & Ballet, Studio Boekman

Running time

1:05, no interval

Tickets

From € 15

How do you rock your baby to sleep while the howls of protest are flooding through the window? Can you soothe your child at all, as the fight for its future rages all around you?

Lullaby follows a woman caught between her safe world at home and the urge to join the revolution going on outside in the streets. Looking for a lullaby to calm herself and her baby, they venture out into the night. What unfolds is a confronting and unexpected journey, which ultimately provides her with both the song and a personal (r)evolution.

Lullaby: a solo opera

The performance has been written for award-winning soprano Laura Bohn, with music by composer Kamala Sankaram. She wove a soundscape out of meditative lullabies, protest songs and jazzy rhythms, in which voice, viola and keyboard deftly come together. Librettist Guillermo Calderón’s lyrics are playful, sometimes absurd, but also hopeful and, above all, incredibly honest. Co-creator and director Sjaron Minailo – known for his distinctive visual and minimalist style – translates the monodrama into an opera that slowly unfolds like a thriller...