Karmina Šilec, conductor and director - author

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Karmina Šilec, conductor and director - author

Karmina Šilec is a conductor and director - author, artistic director of Carmina Slovenica and new music theatre Choregie

Karmina Šilec: OVIS

OVIS collection

on RTV Slovenia 

documentary opera

 

Sheep have been central to the human story.

The key player in human history, this remarkable animal has been feeding, healing, clothing, and supporting us to prosperity and misery, to build empires and devastate landscapes, to decorate our homes and discover new continents, to build cities and create works of art.

Sheep are not just cattle waiting to become meat.

OVIS, Op. 1 brings this everyday species to the fore. It explores some of the profound impact sheep have had on humanity and natural world, their origin, and other extraordinary things humans have learned from them. Their role in our diets has changed us biologically; they are essential to modern medicine, science and industry; and they hold huge symbolic value in many cultures. The success or failure of civilisations has depended on sheep. OVIS gives these creatures a chance to tell their story.

 

Premiere: November 15, 2024, The Minoriti Cultural Quarter

Production: Carmina Slovenica, 2024

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Old man and the Sea

Grammy candidate and CD released

The recording of opera "The Old Man and The Sea," the first-ever approved operatic adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s novel released on VIA Records August 30, 2024 and is now in first Round of Voting for the 2025 GRAMMY Awards. The opera by composer Paola Prestini and libretist...
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VAMPIRABILE

Hongkong, august 2024

  Choregie project VAMPIRABILE About secret miracles Against evil spirits Against spells and monsters…   HKUST Shaw Auditorium, Hongkong: 3. and 4. August, 2024 at 20.00 Mythical worlds – rich, mysterious, never fully explored… Imagination and...
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FORTUNA WON’T BE FAUVEL’S MATCH!

New DVD released

Sheep, what are we waiting for? There's a wolf in the flock! Fortuna Won’t Be Fauvel’s Match! is based on a gothic allegorical verse romance in which the central metaphor for moral decay and decadence is an ambitious horse/ass. The main character – Fauvel – is an incarnation of sin,...
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DVD Op.1: HOMO FABER

new dvd released

BUY TRAILER cross-disciplinary opera  Performers: Boštjan Gombač, multiinstrumentalist​, voice Izidor Leitinger, elektronika​ / electronics, voice Fantje na vasi​,  vocal group Karmina Šilec,  artistic director   waver: Marta...
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OLD MAN AND THE SEA

in North Carolina

OLD MAN AND THE SEA trailer OLD MAN AN THE SEA Carolina Performing Arts Centre, North Carolina premiere, 10.2.2024, Chappel Hill   The Old man and the Sea trailer   ...
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OP.1: HOMO FABER

cross-disciplinary opera

Op. 1: homo faber is a hybrid work, a musical-visual project that breaks down the boundaries between disciplines and aims to create a space for opening up thoughts, perceptions, experiences. The performance combines different forms of expression: the performance of various jobs and tasks, singing, words, images; their changing fusion creates different levels of meaning.

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Old man and the sea

opera premiere

The Old Man and the Sea seeks to understand the meaning of life, death of the people and things. Starting point is in an intimate - an ancient - an eternal companion: the personal fear of / against ageing. Santiago is a priest of time, a timeless monument of power of the will which defeats an age.  The project is a meditation on his willpower replacing the power of the flesh; and on wisdom, pride and humility replacing the arrogance of youth as the victory of the spiritual will. 

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