EP601: World Premiere of BABA: The Life and Death of Stana with Karmina Šilec and Shira Cion of Kitka
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Today on In Unison, we’re chatting with composer and director Karmina Šilec of Carmina Slovenika and Executive Artistic director Shira Cion of San Francisco-based Kitka about the upcoming premiere of the newly commissioned opera, “BABA: The Life and Death of Stana.” This new opera offers an innovative, non-narrative take on Balkan epic story-singing traditions and explores themes of gender, otherness, choice, virginity, sexual identity, and the complexities of interpreting these Balkan gender-transformation stories through a contemporary, liberal, western gaze.Music excerpts"Fly Trembling Spirit," by Kelly Atkins, performed by Kitka“Heyamoli,” by Tamar Buadze, performed by KitkaEpisode referencesBABA: The Life and Death of StanaKarmina Šilec Choregie techniqueTheme Song: Mr. Puffy by Avi Bortnik, arr. by Paul Kim. Performed by Dynamic
