A documentary opera which combines new contemporary classical music, jazz, folklore, documentary sources, video art, film, animation design and opera elements.
It is said that Fridolin himself was a bit of loner. Therefore, with a tape recorder fastened to his old Nimbus motorcycle the Danish music anthropologist Andreas Fridolin Weis Bentzon goes on his journey with one purpose in mind: safeguarding a musical tradition. The year is 1956, his destination Sardinia and the Sardinian folk music and dance – specifically the archaic triple clarinet called launeddas, which only few players master at the time. In an accelerated race against time he achieves his goal, the hunt seems prolific, and Fridolin becomes the first person in the world to document the extraordinary sound of the ancient instrument. Dansejæger/Dance Hunter is a deconstructed musical portray about the existential fear for oblivion and history's echo led up to the present, told and interpreted through Mauro Patricelli's edged and vehement compositions.
The opera premiere will be presented at Betty Nansen Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark in June 2016. Dates: 8th through 12th June as part of the Copenhagen Stage Festival.