Photo: Therese Buch-Andersen
Music composed by Carman Moore
Vocals and Lyrics by Lotte Arnsbjerg
Puppetry, Stage Design, and Direction by Rolf Soborg Hansen
Puppeteers: Evi Arnsbjerg and Blanka Drozdik
Dance by Kiori Kawai
Soprano Saxophone and Flute by Premik Tubbs
Mounted in collaboration with the Lieber Institute for Brain Development
Co-Produced by Peter Yarrow through the auspices of Operation Respect, a 501(c)3 educational non-profit.
AUGUST 26 - 27 | 7:30 PM | $10 - $15
Science Talk with artists and invited scientists followed by Embracing The Root performance
Conceived and created by the distinguished classical music composer, Carman Moore, and his renowned Danish writing partner, singer, actor, and librettist, Lotte Arnsbjerg, Embracing the Root, The Opera tells the story of a woman lost in the forest who suffers from the stress of the sometimes overwhelming challenges of these difficult times.
Presently, she hears music emanating from a tree that invites her down into its world of roots and fungi where she experiences the intricate and communally supportive interactions among the roots of any stand of trees. Here, in the mystical underground labyrinth, she finds healing and wisdom as she feels called upon by the trees to take a message of survival to the world above, one that emulates the communal nurturing of trees, their roots, and their fungi.
She understands from the trees, many of whom would normally live for hundreds even thousands of years, that it is human beings who threaten the trees’ survival, as well as the survival of humans, themselves, and all other living things on earth. It is indifference and acts of destruction that ignore the imperative ways of nature that now threaten to destroy life on earth if a path of community, love, and mutual support is not chosen.
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