Z królestwa umarłych
From the Kingdom of the Dead

Summary/Abstract: Desdemona directed by Peter Sellars (world premiere: 15 V 2011 in Vienna, during Wiener Festwochen) is a musical staging of texts by Toni Morrison – an American Nobel Prize winner, writer, and researcher of “black” literature. The drama evolved based on variants on the theme of a line from Shakespeare, “My mother had a maid call'd Barbara,” testifying to the powerful influence of the black dry-maid on Desdemona. Sellars clashes this theme with the convention of word music.

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