Video: Tomorrow, in a year - A Darwin electro-opera

It's fairly taxing to lambast your heroes. Karin and Olof Dreijer Andersson, disguised once again behind the guile of their once-estranged Venetian masks and more recently, opera, return as The Knife . Sort of... Tomorrow, In A Year was met with somewhat sterile reviews and infrequent shots of praise and Dots & Dashes didn't quite twig what was going on behind all those papier mache beaks this time around. Yet their D-Day (D standing also for Darwin), and any further evolution for such influentially indisposable electro pioneers will be decided this July in London's Barbican Theatre, for [...]

If Charles Darwin doesn't scream opera, then I don't know what does. Ummm, where to begin. I'm not to sure what I should say about this, I can appreciate it on an artistic level but I can't help but be a little disappointed that the album isn't more of what I was expecting. The Knife and anything associated with them has always been a bit out there, even for Swedish standards, but this is taking it to an entire new level. Theatre production company Hotel Pro Formas is behind the [...]

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"Tomorrow, in a Year", da companhia dinamarquesa Hotel Pro Forma, é uma ópera que pretende dar a visão do mundo através dos olhos de Charles Darwin. Os Knife foram convidados para criarem a sonoridade, que eles designam como "electro-ópera", para a obra.

The Knife are scoring an opera about Charles Darwin. Colouring of Pigeons is the first released bit of music from this opera. Hear it now in it's full 11 minute glory. The Knife w/ Mt Sims & Planningtorock - Colouring of Pigeons Recently a short clip from the opera leaked. Watch that as well.

• Colouring of Pigeons

der spannenden musikalischen projekt gibt es nie genug. die oper "tomorrow, in a year" von the knife wird am 05.03.10 auf rabid records/cooperative music/universal erscheinen. thematisch dreht es sich bei dieser elektrovariante von oper um den aufsatz "die entstehung der arten" von charles darwin. über die evolutionstheorie hinaus beschäftigt sich dieses besondere unternehmen jedoch auch mit dem menschen darwin. mit an bord sind die dänische performance truppe hotel pro forma, die künstler mt.sims und planningtorock und natürlich the knife , die das projekt folgendermaßen beschreiben: " At first it was very difficult as we really didn't know anything about [...]

The Knife are set to release an Opera called "Tomorrow, in a Year" digitally Feb 2nd, and in stores March 9th. In anticipation of that they are giving away the first single "Colouring of Pigeons" if you give them you're email address. The project is a collaboration with Mt. Sims and Planningtorock and "based on Charles Darwin and his book 'On the Origin of the Species'." It's a double disk album and was performed live in Stockholm September 2nd, with more performances coming this month in Europe. Looks like between Fever Ray and this opera the band [...]

I got a bad news phone call at 6am (feel better, Erik!) and decided to check my email since I was already up. Turns out it wasn't half bad timing, since that's when the Knife decided to release the new song from their Charles Darwin-inspired musical. Tomorrow, In a Year will be available digitally Feb [...]

• Colouring of Pigeons

The world seen through the eyes of Charles Darwin forms the basis for the performance Tomorrow, in a rear . The Danish theater production company, Hotel Pro Forma, and their striking visuals blend with pop-duo The Knife's ground-breaking music to create a new species of electro-opera. An opera singer, a pop singer and an actor perform The Knife's music and represent Darwin, time and nature on stage. Six dancers form the raw material of life, together with the newest technology in light and sound, [...]

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Não sei de quem foi a idéia, mas há um tempo atrás chamaram o The Knife para escrever uma ópera sobre a vida e a obra de Charles Darwin, aquele cara que descobriu que os humanos são bróders genéticos dos macacos e que quem criou a vida na Terra não foi um maluco de barba branca. A tal ópera, "Tomorrow, In A Year" , estreou mês passado na Dinamarca e hoje saiu um "trailer" da apresentação. É bem estranho, como você bem espera.