‘Wood Behaviour’ – LIKE FLESH Sivan Eldar – Opéra de Lille

Scene 14. Wood Behaviour - The Student tells the Forester how sad she is that her own human life cannot have the same rhythm as the Tree’s; the Forester praises fire and human civilisation. A subversion of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Like flesh is the fruit of a collaboration between a group of committed young artists. The Israeli composer Sivan Eldar creates an intriguing sound world by combining orchestral and electro-acoustic music. The British playwright Cordelia Lynn is already well known in English theatre circles for, among other things, her collaboration with Katie Mitchell to re-stage The Tempest. With the Italian director and scenographer Silvia Costa, they offer a work that transcends natural and touches the supernatural. Driven by the fiery energy of the Le Balcon ensemble, this is a sensual, political, ecological opera as urgent as the climate crisis itself. Streamed on OperaVision on 15 July 2022 at 19:00 CET and available until 15 January 2023: