Chefone blames Mimaroben, who, with the pilot Isagel, is taken away. When the Earth is destroyed, Mima cannot continue, and Sandon makes jokes about the safety on board, but when the mute describes in signs the end of the world he becomes silent. Through Mimaroben, who is the operator of Mima, the emigrants learn of the evil of mankind.ĭuring the celebration of midsummer, the vessel is thrown off course, causing panic, and forcing a journey to the constellation Lyra which commander Chefone says will last for the rest of the lives of the crew and passengers. Sven-Erik Wikström, Arne Ohlson, Bo LundborgĬontrolled by the computer Mima, the space ship Aniara leaves the poisoned Earth, heading for Mars. A production was mounted in Gothenburg in 1994. Blomdahl said in interview that the opera (in common with his next opera Herr von Hancken) was founded on "modern man's complexity and his basically impossible situation" Aniara dealt with "the downfall of the group". Many representatives of the international press were at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm for the premiere in 1959 at a time when the space age was beginning.
In essence the opera (and poem) deal with the relationship between the individual and the group through time.
The narrative is sung primarily by Mimaroben, a bass-baritone, who operates the electronic tape, Mima, the computer, and by the chorus. The score of Aniara is varied and makes full use of a range of musical idioms, including jazz, serial writing and an electronic tape. The opera was described by the composer with the ambiguous phrase en revy om människan i tid och rum: "a revue about Man in Time and Space". Kjerstin Dellert and Olle Sivall in the premiere production.Īniara is an opera in two acts by Karl-Birger Blomdahl, with a libretto by Erik Lindegren based on the poem Aniara by Harry Martinson, that was premiered on.
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