• EP601: World Premiere of BABA: The Life and Death of Stana with Karmina Šilec and Shira Cion of Kitka

  • Feb 4 2023
  • Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
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EP601: World Premiere of BABA: The Life and Death of Stana with Karmina Šilec and Shira Cion of Kitka

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  • Today on In Unison, we’re chatting with composer and director Karmina Šilec of Carmina Slovenika and Executive Artistic director Shira Cion of San Francisco-based Kitka about the upcoming premiere of the newly commissioned opera, “BABA: The Life and Death of Stana.”  This new opera offers an innovative, non-narrative take on Balkan epic story-singing traditions and explores themes of gender, otherness, choice, virginity, sexual identity, and the complexities of interpreting these Balkan gender-transformation stories through a contemporary, liberal, western gaze.

    Music excerpts

    • "Fly Trembling Spirit," by Kelly Atkins, performed by Kitka
    • “Heyamoli,” by Tamar Buadze, performed by Kitka

    Episode references

    • BABA: The Life and Death of Stana
    • Karmina Šilec 
    • Choregie technique


    Theme Song: Mr. Puffy by Avi Bortnik, arr. by Paul Kim. Performed by Dynamic
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