Valerie's Voice
Freebird Malmö
2019
Valerie's Voice is an opera for one soprano and four electric guitars by Christofer Elgh, based on Valerie Solanas' S.C.U.M. Manifesto. In this opera, Valerie is the woman telling the story from her point of view. About growing up as a girl in a male society. About growing up as a boy in a male society. About trying to be a woman, whatever that is. About male artists taking up all the oxygen. And also about to slaughter the masks and roles that we all are wearing, and instead cooperate to build a new world, based on love and creativity.
Team: Text: Valerie Solanas. Music: Christofer Elgh. Set design: Åsa Gjerstad and Helena Röhr. Costume and mask design: Åsa Gjerstad. Lighting design: Kicki Renberg. Cast: Paulina Pfeiffer, soprano.
