Wittgenstein

Thanks to support from the Fond for Lyd og Bilde and TeaterAvant Garden in Norway; the Conseil Générale du Gard and the Centre Artistique International Roy Hart in France; and LaMaMa ETC in New York we had our premiere on May 13th In Trondheim. The reception and the reviews were good, but with just six days of rehearsal together there were a lot of weaknesses.

Now we are going to develop the orchestrations and execution of the music to the highest possible level by making a sound recording, produced by Mikkel Storleer Eriksen at the famous Stargate Studios in New York. This is an incredible opportunity, and the sales and promotion via the cd will build interest for the stage performance in New York planned for the autumn of 2010.

Wittgenstein & the Soprano began five years ago as my attempt to give something back to Jonathan, but he had too many projects on at that time to write the music. Since then other artists have offered their talent and time to the project, but finally, last summer when we were close to giving up, Jonathan said that he could do it - A typically Roy Hart Theatre slow maturation! and slowly we are producing something very beautiful.

Wittgenstein was an impossible mixture of heroism, ethics, aesthetics, entertainment and tragedy. Our opera is equally impossible - Une Commédie Philosophique!

See a tiny video of extracts:


		Where the lyrical meets the logical By Charles Boer & Jonathan Hart Makwaia
	with Jonathan Hart Makwaia, Inki Storleer & Ian Magilton
Thanks to support from the Fond for Lyd og Bilde and TeaterAvant Garden in Norway; the Conseil Générale du Gard and the Centre Artistique International Roy Hart in France; and LaMaMa ETC in New York we had our premiere on May 13th In Trondheim. The reception and the reviews were good, but with just six days of rehearsal together there were a lot of weaknesses. Now we are going to develop the orchestrations and execution of the music to the highest possible level by making a sound recording, produced by Mikkel Storleer Eriksen at the famous Stargate Studios in New York. This is an incredible opportunity, and the sales and promotion via the cd will build interest for the stage performance in New York planned for the autumn of 2010. Wittgenstein & the Soprano began five years ago as my attempt to give something back to Jonathan, but he had too many projects on at that time to write the music. Since then other artists have offered their talent and time to the project, but finally, last summer when we were close to giving up, Jonathan said that he could do it - A typically Roy Hart Theatre slow maturation! and slowly we are producing something very beautiful. Wittgenstein was an impossible mixture of heroism, ethics, aesthetics, entertainment and tragedy. Our opera is equally impossible - Une Commédie Philosophique! See a tiny video of extracts: or a bigger one: