Performance: BAHAYA

Tuesday, 10/1/2024
6:00 - 7:30
Koret Auditorium
Main Library

100 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
United States

415-557-4400

In this multimedia opera, the looming threat of rising sea levels due to melting polar ice endangers island nations worldwide. Titled "BAHAYA," meaning "danger" in Indonesian, the work is composed by Richard Marriott with a libretto by Ruth Margraff, exploring the global impact of climate change.

BAHAYA is devised from ocean tales from Indonesia, Greenland and 12th century poet Farid Ud-Din Attar with a story of two sisters who have drifted apart as glaciers melt, one to the South and one to the North. They command a Wayfarer to make his way across seven seas with an ancient stolen comb, and to then descend to the polluted ocean floor on a mysterious quest for purification. 

BAHAYA will be performed by Balinese virtuoso Dewa Berata, Gamelan Sekar Jaya musicians Carla Fabrizio and Sarah Willner, Club Foot Orchestra musicians Beth Custer and Chris Grady, and Russian Telegraph bandleader David James. 

Experimental video by Clemencia Macias, Bob Pacelli and Liz Walsh. Video editing by Steve Mobia. Production by Circuit Network.

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