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Simon Steen-Andersen's opera Buenos Aires proves a thought provoking and bizarre piece

By Aksel Tollåli, 22 September 2014
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“Throughout the opera, Steen-Andersen devised different ways of distorting speech”
Reviewed at Oslo Opera House, Stage 2, Oslo on 18 September 2014
Programme
Steen-Andersen, Buenos Aires
Performers
Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart
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Aksel Tollåli
Aksel Tollåli
Aksel is currently studying towards a degree in musicology at the University of Oslo. At the moment he is an exchange student at Goldsmiths College in London. He is also a choral singer and a trombonist. His musical interests include 20th-cenury French music, Baroque opera and the music of Richard Strauss.