Under the Deep: a pop-opera dance-theatre piece

Pop meets opera in this performance staged by Anja Behrens, which travels through three art forms and the turning points of life on the Opera's main stage. The show is built in close collaboration between ballet, drama and music, and moves through three acts: birth, sexuality and death.

Composer Jeanett Albeck has written a kind of pop bible for our time, combining well-known hits with newly composed songs. Five older opera singers and five trombonists perform them live, while five travellers set out into the world to find a meaningful place in life. Through dance and song they face disappointment, desire, grief and the realisation that growing up means letting a perfect world die.

Choreographers Sebastian Kloborg and Oliver Marcus Starpov set movement to music that speaks to both the nostalgic and the dreamer. Christian Albrechtsen provides the scenography. The result is neither ballet, drama nor a classical concert, but a fusion that opens up to the deepest emotions.