Gaia-24 explores human and environmental disaster caused by Russian attack on Kakhovka dam
The opera is far from a literal depiction of the cataclysmic events of summer last year. Photograph: Julia Kochetova/The GuardianTaking a casual glance at the elegant Kyivans queueing outside the lemon-yellow neoclassical theatre perched above Independence Square, an onlooker would have few hints that there was a war on.
As Russian troops ploughed through the Chornobyl exclusion zone headed for Kyiv, and occupied the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Chornobyldorf, which summoned up a dystopian future in which humans try to piece together fragments of shattered cultural memory after a nuclear catastrophe, began to seem horribly prescient.
“It was a kind of violence against nature, as was Chornobyl, and the shrinking of the Aral Sea. All of these events are products of Russian colonisation, in different forms.”The work is a musical collage of folk song and cabaret tunes; classical works; chunks of techno and death metal; and even a snatch of Dua Lipa.
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