Velasco-Pufleau, Luis (18 January 2024). A Struggle for Memory: Composer Hèctor Parra on his new opera "Justice". VAN Magazine VAN Verlag
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In this interview, the composer Hèctor Parra engages in a conversation with Luis Velasco-Pufleau about his opera “Justice”, co-produced by the Grand Théâtre de Genève and the Festival Tangente St. Pölten (Austria). Based on a script by director Milo Rau and a libretto by Congolese writer Fiston Mwanza Mujila, the opera is set in Katanga, an extremely mineral-rich region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) whose resources have been mostly exploited by foreign mining companies from the brutal Belgian colonization of the country to the present day. Parra talks about the creative process of the work and his artistic collaborations around “Justice”.
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Newspaper or Magazine Article |
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Division/Institute: |
06 Faculty of Humanities > Other Institutions > Walter Benjamin Kolleg (WBKolleg) 06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Art and Cultural Studies > Institute of Musicology |
UniBE Contributor: |
Velasco Pufleau, Luis Alberto |
Subjects: |
700 Arts > 780 Music 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology 900 History > 960 History of Africa |
Publisher: |
VAN Verlag |
Funders: |
[164] Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (European Commission) |
Projects: |
[1590] Political Ontologies of Music: Rethinking the Relationship between Music and Politics in the Twenty-First Century Official URL |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Luis Alberto Velasco Pufleau |
Date Deposited: |
22 Jan 2024 07:51 |
Last Modified: |
22 Jan 2024 07:51 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
Katanga, Milo Rau, Fiston Mwanza Mujila, violence, corruption, mining, environmental disasters |
BORIS DOI: |
10.48350/191781 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/191781 |
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