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Local | Bollywood and Opera meet in a festive firework of color, music and tones

By on May 16, 2016

May 25 is the premiere of the Bollywood Opera in Botkyrka! It offered a breathtaking mix of classic Italian opera in Bollywood style, with Dogge Doggelito as an opera-rapper, as well as opera singers, musicians and dancers on stage, along with over one hundred children and adolescents from Botkyrka.

– There is an intrigue-packed story filled with love, dance and song. We wanted to create a cultural frame of joy and fellowship, and by mixing two so joyful expression that classical opera and Bollywood, was born the idea Bollywood Opera in Botkyrka, says opera singer and -regissören Charlotta Huldt, who is also the initiator of the project.
The project has already been written about in the Indian media and in the autumn SVT broadcast a documentary about the project, social media mentioned as “one of Europe’s coolest cultural projects.” A number of well-known Swedish and international opera singers and dancers involved in the show, not to mention more than a hundred children and adolescents from Botkyrka. For Dogge Doggelito it was natural to say yes to being involved in the project.
– Taking tonnes for inclusion in this way feels natural to me, says Dogge Doggelito, who makes his debut as an opera-rapper in the show.

Charlotta Huldt, who is an opera singer and initiator of the project, says that the work on the opera started already six years ago as a reaction to the polarization of society. After several years of preparation, the project ever closer form. At the beginning of the year traveled a working group for the project to India. With them home they got half a kilometer fabric, 30 costumes, props, musical instruments and jewelry. But most of all they had with them experiences that shaped the scenic basic idea of the project.

– In Botkyrka live and lives people from about 100 different countries and speak over 150 languages. This multicultural, wealthy and international mix of people provides a perfect masala feeling when Bollywood and Opera meet in a festive firework of color, music and tones, says Charlotta Huldt.

It is Rossini’s comic opera The Italian Girl in Algar that has been transformed into a colorful Bollywood-inspired show with song, music and dance. Bollywood Opera premiere on Subtopia in Botkyrka May 25, and then play two more shows 27 and May 29.

About the show

Performances: Wednesday, May 25 at 19:00 (premiere), Friday, May 27 at 19:00, Sunday, May 29 at 17.00. The show lasts about 2.5 hours including intermission.

Location: Subtopia, Hangaren, Albyvägen 38, Metro: Alby.

Web: www.bollywoodopera.se

Tickets: 320-550 SEK price, via ticknet.se

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