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DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nWednesday, November 16, 2022 7:00 pm to 1
 0:30 pm \n I\nis Town Hall \n I\nis College \n 2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto,
  Ontario \n\nDescription: \nThe CDTPS is proud to present the opera film B
 aņuta with the primary artists in attendance. The feature-length film will
  be shown at the I\nis Town Hall Theatre on November 16, 2022, at 7 pm. 
 There will be a short talk before the film’s screening and a Q&A at the en
 d. The language of the opera is in Latvian and German with English subtitl
 es.Tickets will be free for U of T students/ $20 for the general public. T
 o purchase your ticket, visit banuta.eventbrite.ca. Doors open at 6:30pm.
 The opera film Baņuta is an international project that melds opera, musi
 c performance, and cinematography into one riveting feature-length film. 
 The story is about a young woman fighting for love amidst the trauma of wa
 r. Baņuta is a partisan in both a mythical past and in 20th century Easter
 n Europe, when her life is saved by the Lithuanian prince, Daumants. Spe
 eding away on a motorcycle, he takes her to his homeland in Romove, a ho
 ly Baltic site. Preparations for their wedding are interrupted by ravens,
  who remind Daumants of his crime against a girl he raped and killed. Soon
  Daumants falls in battle, and Baņuta is caught up in sacrificial rituals
  and revenge. Nevertheless, she refuses to give up her struggle for happi
 ness. When composer Alfrēds Kalniņš’ premiered Baņuta in 1920, it was
  the very first opera ever written in the newly decolonised, independent 
 Latvia. More than a hundred years later, director Franziska Kronfoth from
  Berlin and dramaturg Evarts Melnalksnis from Riga bring together Latvian 
 artists and the German music theatre collective “Hauen und Stechen” to rei
 nterpret the dramatic message without nostalgia. Baņuta’s struggles invoke
  the collective experience of women who have suffered through the wars of 
 Eastern Europe and are suffering again today in Ukraine and across the glo
 be. A contradictory sense of humour seeps into the tragedy, while charact
 ers stuck deep in the centuries strive to break the fourth wall.Made durin
 g the covid crisis, the production rips the opera out of its traditional 
 space and is filmed both outdoors and in a post-industrial venue. Applying
  methods of exuberant deconstruction, the creators open this classic work
  up to a contemporary audience.View the trailer (with English subtitles).F
 ranziska Kronfoth, Director  Franziska Kronfoth, born in Berlin, is con
 sidered a leader in contemporary music theatre in Germany. She is an opera
  director who merges music and drama with art, philosophy, film und perf
 ormance which meet in a wild, colorful and opulent theatre experience. Sh
 e is a co-founder of the music theatre collective “Hauen und Stechen” whic
 h has been working in in opera houses as well as in caves, cars, clubs a
 nd museums. (The name ‘Hauen and Stechen’, which literally means ‘beating
  and stabbing,’ is a popular term for fierce competition.) Among her proj
 ects are versions of Carmen, Tristan and Isolde, Salome, Lulu, Saint M
 atthews Passion, as well as various experimental creations. Recently, sh
 e directed a movie of the Latvian opera Baņuta. Franziska puts the danger 
 and the fun back in opera and has just been nominated for the prestigious 
 German theatre award ‘Der Faust’ for her opera co-direction of The Condemn
 ation of Lucullus. hauen-und-stechen.com/bios/Evarts Melnalksnis from Riga
 , Latvia is deeply engaged in music theatre dramaturgy and is an innovato
 r and idea generator in music theatre and performance art, including an o
 utstanding event in the elephant stables of the Riga circus. He focuses on
  post-dramatic theatre strategies, contemporary music theatre, interdisc
 iplinary and international cooperation. He studied at the Hamburg Universi
 ty of Music and Theatre, and was awarded a DAAD (German Academic Exchange
  Service) scholarship as well as the 'Musiktheater heute' scholarship for 
 young music theatre professionals (2016 - 2018). He is the founder of the 
 Latvian theatre troupe KVADRIFRONS and dramaturg of its several performanc
 es, including 'The Spring' which received the national theatre prize (201
 9). His special skill is taking apart a classic work (like ‘Baņuta’ or ‘Sp
 ring Awakening’) and finding its current urgency. He is the initiator and 
 dramaturg of the Latvian opera film Baņuta. The artists will also be hosti
 ng two Opera and Music Theatre Workshops sessions on November 18 and 20.Su
 pported by the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, Univer
 sity of Toronto; the Latvian National Federation in Canada; Daugavas Van
 agi (Latvian Relief Society of Canada); and the Latvian National Opera Fu
 nd.  \n2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, Ontario \n\nCategories \n Screenings \n
 \nAudiences \n CDTPS CommunityCurrent Graduate StudentsCurrent Undergradua
 te StudentsGeneral Public
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LOCATION:2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, Ontario
SUMMARY:Opera Film Baņuta: Love is a Battle
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