Emir Kusturica - Le Temps Des Gitans Punk Opera

"Le Temps des Gitans" Punk Opera (Time of the Gypsies Punk Opera), an adaptation of Kusturica's 1988 award-winning movie by the same name, it is his entire idiosyncratic world that has been brought to the stage of the Bastille Opera Closer to riotous spectacle than lyric opera, the 100-minute single act show is held together as much by its imaginative staging as by a score that alternates between folksy gypsy music and hard rock. The voices blasting out of banks of loudspeakers in turn seem closer to those heard in musical comedy than in Mozart or Verdi. It is also, in a sense, what Kusturica's cultish followers might have expected of the Sarajevo-born director of "When Father Was Away on Business" and "Underground," which won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes film festival in 1995, as well as of "Black Cat, White Cat," "Arizona Dream" and "Time of the Gypsies," perhaps his most popular film, for which he won the award for best director at Cannes in 1989

The libretto, written by Nenad Jankovic, simplifies the plot of the movie to the ill-fated love story between two teenage gypsies, Perhan (Stevan Andjelkovic) and Azra (Milica Todorovic), along with Perhan's involvement with Ahmed (Jankovic), a sleazy villager who has grown rich in Milan by kidnapping gypsy children and turning them into beggars. Perhan invites trouble by following Ahmed to Milan in the hope of quick wealth. When he returns to his village, he finds that Azra has become pregnant by his uncle, whom he duly kills. Perhan marries Azra, but gives away her baby, only to discover a few years later that the boy is begging in Milan. Finally, when Perhan finds that his sister has become one of Ahmed's street walkers, a shoot-out leaves the stage covered in corpses

Composed by Dejan Sparavalo, Jankovic and Kusturica's son, Stribor, the score was made few days before the opera itself opens at Opéra Bastille in Paris on 26 June 2007 is driven along by Umpapa rhythms typical of gypsy songs and dances, occasionally interrupted by electric guitar solos and rock music, much of it catchy enough for some audience members to clap to the beat (surely a first at the Paris Opera).

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