Aug 30, 31, Sep 3, 8pm and Sep 4, 2pm
UKSUS, the latest chamber opera by Erling Wold, is a joyous autopsy of Daniil Kharms and the OBERIU in the Soviet Union of the 1930s, a narrative told through their absurd stories and brief lives. The OBERIU - The Association for *Real* Art - maintained their love of words and nonsense even through the deprivations of the Nazi siege of Leningrad and to their deaths in Stalin's Great Purge.
Kharms was well known as a writer of books for children, even though he hated children and wrote fantasies of their painful deaths. His adult works, lost for decades, were rediscovered and reclaimed by a new generation of troublemaker artists who have themselves run afoul of the authorities.
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UKSUS, the latest chamber opera by Erling Wold, is a joyous autopsy of Daniil Kharms and the OBERIU in the Soviet Union of the 1930s, a narrative told through their absurd stories and brief lives. The OBERIU - The Association for *Real* Art - maintained their love of words and nonsense even through the deprivations of the Nazi siege of Leningrad and to their deaths in Stalin's Great Purge.
Kharms was well known as a writer of books for children, even though he hated children and wrote fantasies of their painful deaths. His adult works, lost for decades, were rediscovered and reclaimed by a new generation of troublemaker artists who have themselves run afoul of the authorities.
Aug 30, 31, Sep 3, 8pm and Sep 4, 2pm
UKSUS, the latest chamber opera by Erling Wold, is a joyous autopsy of Daniil Kharms and the OBERIU in the Soviet Union of the 1930s, a narrative told through their absurd stories and brief lives. The OBERIU - The Association for *Real* Art - maintained their love of words and nonsense even through the deprivations of the Nazi siege of Leningrad and to their deaths in Stalin's Great Purge.
Kharms was well known as a writer of books for children, even though he hated children and wrote fantasies of their painful deaths. His adult works, lost for decades, were rediscovered and reclaimed by a new generation of troublemaker artists who have themselves run afoul of the authorities.
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UKSUS, the latest chamber opera by Erling Wold, is a joyous autopsy of Daniil Kharms and the OBERIU in the Soviet Union of the 1930s, a narrative told through their absurd stories and brief lives. The OBERIU - The Association for *Real* Art - maintained their love of words and nonsense even through the deprivations of the Nazi siege of Leningrad and to their deaths in Stalin's Great Purge.
Kharms was well known as a writer of books for children, even though he hated children and wrote fantasies of their painful deaths. His adult works, lost for decades, were rediscovered and reclaimed by a new generation of troublemaker artists who have themselves run afoul of the authorities.
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