opera.exe

📅 11.02 Wednesday — 19:00
📅 12.02 Thursday — 18:00 and 20:00
🏛️ Cricoteka

opera.exe

Creators and cast:

• Eryk Makohon — concept, choreography, scenography, costumes
• Piotr Peszat — music
• Patrycja Marszałek, Yelyzaveta Tereshonok, Agnieszka Bednarz-Tyran, Natalia Myczewska — choreography and performance
• Anna Zawisza — aria performance
• Weronika Wawryk — multimedia and graphic identity
• Borys Dubiański — video
• Elżbieta Kwasek — costumes
• Filip Marszałek — lighting
• Mateusz Hajdo, Scenografia Plus — scenographic collaboration
• Izabela Zawadzka — dramaturgical collaboration and production
• Paweł Łyskawa — coordination
• Krakow Dance Theatre — production
• Tadeusz Kantor Centre for the Documentation of Art — co-production
• Fundacja Zawsze Silni — support

🎫 tickets (prices 84.80 zł regular / 63.60 zł reduced) are available on the Eventim.pl platform

⚠️ The performance contains smoke, loud music and strobe lighting.

“Opera.exe” is a performance by the Krakow Dance Theatre choreographed by Eryk Makohon, which, by hacking classical librettos, rewrites the fates of operatic heroines. From the stories of Medea (Luigi Cherubini), Salome and Elektra (Richard Strauss) and Turandot (Giacomo Puccini), traditionally presented as victims of passion, madness or fate, motifs of resistance, emancipation and radical opposition to the patriarchal order that confined them are revealed. The performers’ bodies become vehicles of transformation, spaces where old operatic narratives are recoded. Humanoid bots hack the operatic librettos attempting to move beyond the stories loaded into their systems. The deconstruction is reinforced by music by Piotr Peszat, using classical sounds (arias performed by Anna Zawisza) within a modern composition. Fragments of librettos and recognizable motifs become material for deconstruction — a musical palimpsest that resonates with the corporeal action of the performers.

The performance was financed by the European Union NextGenerationEU under the Recovery and Resilience Plan for culture.
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Premiere support: Fundacja Zawsze Silni.

Opera.exe is a dance performance by the Krakow Dance Theatre, choreographed by Eryk Makohon. The piece rewrites the stories of iconic opera heroines by hacking and reimagining their traditional librettos. Drawing on the worlds of Medea (Luigi Cherubini), Salome and Elektra (Richard Strauss), and Turandot (Giacomo Puccini), the performance challenges their usual portrayals as victims of passion, madness, or fate. Instead, it brings forward themes of resistance, emancipation, and radical defiance of the patriarchal order that confines them. The performers’ bodies become sites of transformation, carrying and reshaping these operatic narratives. Humanoid bots appear on stage, attempting to break free from the stories programmed into their systems. The deconstruction is further intensified by music composed by Piotr Peszat, which uses classical operatic sounds — including arias performed by Anna Zawisza — in a contemporary composition. Fragments of librettos and recognisable motifs form a layered musical structure that resonates with the physical presence and movement of the performers.