- The capacity for this performance is low, but don't worry – if you didn't get a ticket you can show up at Black Box teater and put your name on the waitlist, you might be next in line. The performance lasts approximately 5 hours, and the audience can leave at their own accord. If someone leaves the performance, the next person in line is offered to go in. The bar opens one hour before the performance and is open throughout the evening.
Eavesdrop on a secretive community creating operas and ideal worlds in a meadow deep in the Swedish forest. Earlier in 2024, a reclusive artistic sect performed an opera in a self-constructed village on a meadow in Värmland in Sweden. Twelve observers from Oslo, ‘The Chosen Ones’, were selected to pay a secret visit to the utopian village. Here they witnessed first hand the life of the mysterious community, including their education, sermons, militaristic training and operatic productions. The ‘Followers of Ø’ – cult members described as ‘a strange, mystical group of losers’ – presented a live show in meadows, barns and opera houses. During Ultima, an audience at Black Box teater watches the unfolding events, documented, commented on, and interpreted by the witnesses.
A rare opportunity for an Oslo audience to share the daily activities and art of this mysterious community, inamarathon five-hour, multi-techno-media-installation- performance-opra-docu-propaganda-ritual conducted by Trond Reinholdtsen.
Trond Reinholdtsen is educated as a classical composer and singer. In his work, he mixes references to lecture, documentary, performance and banality with his interest in narrative form, mathematical structure and communist propaganda. The work The Followers of Ø: «To arms! To arms!» – an affirmative Oratory by the Norwegian Opra was performed at Oslo Internasjonale Teaterfestival 2020.
In collaboration with Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival .
