Name: The Metamorphosis
Start: 2023-08-30T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-08-30T00:00:00.000Z
Location: The Cockpit

Organization

Tête à Tête Festival

Conductor

Krzysztof Stipulkovski

Stage director

Íñigo Santacana

Costume designer

Mar P. Soler

Singer

William Wallace

Tenor

Paula Mendoza

Soprano

Pianist

The Metamorphosis

London

United Kingdom

The Cockpit

Public

Approved

This opera celebrates the centenary of Kafka’s work with a faithful, yet fresh and up-to-date adaptation. 

The adaptation is based on the feeling of claustrophobia and adopts a feverish language, focusing on symbolic elements and expressionism.

As Gregor struggles to adapt to his new form, he faces rejection from those around him. His sister begins to resent his presence and to consider him a burden, undergoing in turn another kind of transformation, in parallel.

As the staging is notoriously expressionist, the music uses that kind of atmospheres and tensions that take us to complex territories, especially when it expresses those diverse “metamorphoses” along the plot, taking us into an enormous emotional and psychological depth.

The music reflects the styles and currents of the first decades of the twentieth century, also adding modern techniques, such as negative harmony and other extended ones, but all under the omnipresent backbone of romanticism.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew