PARIS (SEEcult.org) - The punk opera "Time of the Gypsies" by well known movie director from former Yugoslavia Emir Kusturica, two-time Cannes winner, will be premiered on June 26 in Opera Bastille in Paris.
Kusturica’s opera is based on his film “Dom za vesanje” (1999), internationaly known as “Time of the Gypsies”.
Text is written by Nenad Jankovic, based on an original script by Gordan Mihic and Kusturica, and will be performed on Gypsy language.
Beside the No Smoking Orchestra and The Garbage Serbian Philarmonia, the opera “Time of the Gypsies”, a coproduction by Palass from France and the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía from Valencia, featuring Stevan Andjelkovic as Perhan, Milica Todorovic as Azra, Dr. Nele Karajlic as Ahmed and Gorica Popovic as Perhan’s grandmother.
Kusturica declared in April on Serbian TV that “the main theme of the opera will be Ederlezi” and described his new work as a story about youth, entering in the real world. “We used this theme as it’s the most relevant Gipsy song, and we made of it a kind of purification and cathartic journey trough life“, said Kusturica.
Kusturica also wrote music, along with his son Stribor and Dejan Sparavalo and Nenad Jankovic. Sets are made by Peter Pabst and Ivana Protic, and clothes by Nesa Lipanovic, while for lights is responsible Michel Amathieu.
Kusturica presented his new film “Promise Me This” at the 60th Cannes Film Festival.
He is two-time Cannes winner, having scooped the Golden Palm for “When Father Was Away on Business” in 1985 and “Underworld” in 1995.
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