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A revival of Vivier's Kopernikus in Brooklyn finds inspiration – and cliché – in the afterlife

By Kurt Gottschalk, 15 May 2019

Composer Claude Vivier approaches the unknowable with a text delivered by a septet of vocalists in a language of his own invention. But the new production adds overly literal video, trading abstraction for the obvious.

***11

***11

New York City

18 May 2019

Kopernikus revival finds inspiration – and cliché – in the afterlife

By Kurt Gottschalk

Toronto

Kopernikus: an immersive, disorienting and thought-provoking experience in Toronto

By John Gilks, 04 April 2019

Against the Grain's production of Vivier's Kopernikus is an immersive and thought provoking realisation of the composer's late Opera – rituel de mort. It's music theatre of a rare intensity, brilliantly executed.

*****

*****

Toronto

05 Apr 2019

Kopernikus: immersive, disorienting, thought-provoking

By John Gilks