Three different 21st-century artists are recreating traditional opera and ballet forms with the cooperation of the Den Nye Opera  of Bergen. Henrik Hellstenius in his Ophelias shows us the title heroine as a woman abused by Hamlet who consequently commits a suicide. Obvious to every listener emotional layer of the score and its symbolic dimension emphasize the intimate drama. The music to Shakespeare’s Sonnets was written by Paweł Mykietyn, the greatest Polish composer of the 1970s generation, an icon of Polish music postmodernism, known not only by music lovers but also by theatre and cinema goers.
Thanks to the choreographic vision of Jacek Przybyłowicz, the atonal and full of crystal logic work of Aleksandra Gryka, one of the most interesting young generation composers (nominated twice for a ”Polityka” Passport Award in Classical Music category) has changed into a ballet located between abstraction and a fairy tale, a production set in the barren planet of Kryonia.
The project is executed with the support of the Cultural Exchange Grants within the European Economic Area Financial Mechanism.