HEJ OPERA!

A dear friend of mine, Emelie, is an opera singer and two years ago she started to make operas for kids together with an actor and a musician! Their first children's opera was called Drömfabriken (you can see some bits of it here and here) and is simply wonderful! Their next one is called Jorden runt på 80 dagar and is based on the famous book Around the World in Eighty Days (original title: Le Tour de Monde en Quatro-vingts Jours) the classic adventure novel by the french writer Jules Verne, first published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £ 20,000 wager set by Foggs friends at the Reform Club. I recently red the book as I'm very fond of reading the classics and it's quite entertaining!

The premiere will be on the 24th of November at Teater Jaguar in Göteborg, Sweden. Jonas Franke-blom as Phileas Fogg, Jonas Rimeika as Passepartout and Emelie Sigelius as Aouda and Mr Fix.

Poster-design by me, photography by Harald Nilsson and costume by Elisabeth Åström.

HEJ OPERA!

Förra veckan extraknäckte jag som grafiker och gjorde en logga och en affisch till min vän Emelie Sigelius. Emelie är operasångerska och startade för ett tag sen bloggen Hej Opera!, mest för att träna sitt skrivande men även för att introducera opera till alla oss som är totalt clueless. Läs och lyssna på den! Nu ska Emelie ta Hej Opera! några steg längre så till hösten sätter hon, tillsammans med en cellist och en skådespelare, upp en opera för barn 3-6 år på Teater Jaguar på Storgatan 3 i Göteborg! Här är en karta. Ni kan själva läsa på flyern vad operan kommer att handla om, och sprid det gärna vidare! Det kommer att bli en underbar föreställning!

Lately I've done some work as a grafic designer for a friend of mine, Emelie Sigelius. She is an opera singer and a while back she started the blog Hej Opera! to practice her writing skills and also to introduce opera to those of us that are totally opera-clueless. Read an listen to it! Emelie is now going to take Hej Opera! (Hi Opera!) a few steps further; so this autumn she, a cello player and an actor are staging an opera for children aged 3-6 years old at Teater Jaguar on Storgatan 3 in Gothenburg! Here's a map.  This is going to be such a wonderful show!