The key idea of the performance is the first sentence of the leading text "Where are we, when we were, where we will be, when we are no more?" and that kind of meditation submerges the entire performance. In the foreground, is the magic and the symbolic, the dichotomy between vitalism and aesthetic restraint, between the trivial and artistically emphasized, between the spiritual and the naturalistic.
As to its form, From Time Immemorial is an open-ended work, set in an imaginary musical setting. It is not an ode to the past nor directed toward the idyllic. It moves among the shadows of our ancestors who are related to us in every aspect – in joy and sadness, in self-confidence and despair.
In 2008 Karmina Šilec won an international award for this performance at the world competition for the creators of new opera and music theatre by the Music Theatre Now/ International Theatre Institute in category Music beyond opera.
Music: Lojze Lebič
Performed by:
Mixed choir, ballet and orchestra of Slovene National Theatre Maribor
Vocal Theatre Carmina Slovenica
Mateja Bajt, recorders
Andreja Zakonjšek, soprano
Bojan Gorišek, Olga Peceny, piano
Concept and conductor: Karmina Šilec Direction: Jernej Lorenci Light: David Orešič Set: Branko Hojnik Costume: Belinda Radulović Choreography: Tanja Zgonc Premiere: 2006, Slovene National Theatre Maribor
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