Portrait photo of Julie Comparini

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Julie Comparini

Contralto. Early and new music. Interdisciplinary theater projects.

News: Bauernopfer

Bauernopfer is the German word for a gambit in chess: the voluntary surrender of a piece, usually a pawn, with the objective of gaining an advantage or some other benefit. In everyday language the term is a metaphor for a sacrifice offered to attain or keep something of value.

Based on Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery (1948), Bauernopfer is a new experimental performance project about the meaning, origins and validity of traditional and modern cultures of sacrifice, combining excerpts and dramatizations from Jackson's seminal work with sound collages, music generated from sheet metal, video footage and medieval English crucifixion laments.

Bauernopfer is a collaborative work-in-progress by and with Volker Hartmann-Langenfelder (sound design, sheet metal, organic materials, visuals) and Julie Comparini (texts and vocals). Its premiere is planned for June 2010.

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