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Russian teenagers Denis Muravyov and Katerina Vlasova fall in love, flee home and hide at a relative’s house. A standoff with Russian special forces ends in a firefight and the teenagers’ deaths. The chamber opera retells the event through six witnesses’ accounts, news fragments, messages and role-play.
Based on interviews with more than seventy people from Western Europe born between 1940 and 1949, the opera brings together their memories as a time capsule of roughly eighty years. It explores individual experience and social change, the relationship between private and political life, and the consequences of personal choices.
Russian teenagers Denis Muravyov and Katerina Vlasova fall in love, flee home and hide at a relative’s house. A standoff with Russian special forces ends in a firefight and the teenagers’ deaths. The chamber opera retells the event through six witnesses’ accounts, news fragments, messages and role-play.
Based on interviews with more than seventy people from Western Europe born between 1940 and 1949, the opera brings together their memories as a time capsule of roughly eighty years. It explores individual experience and social change, the relationship between private and political life, and the consequences of personal choices.