Name: UKSUS
Start: 2016-08-30T20:00:00-07:00
End: 2016-09-04T16:00:00-07:00
Location: Oakland Metro Opera House

UKSUS

Erling Wold's Fabrications

<H2>Erling Wold's Fabrications and Underworld Opera presents</H2>
<H2>UKSUS</H2>
<H2>Aug 30th & 31st, Sept 3rd & 4th</H2>
An Entertainment by <A HREF="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erling_Wold" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Erling Wold </A>Directed by Jim Cave / Conducted by Bryan Nies / Designed by <A HREF="http://lynnerutter.com" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Lynne Rutter</A>
<H2>Want to see a trailer?  Click on the photo: </H2>
<A HREF="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nazJWAyfHRQ" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer"><IMG ALT="Bob Ernst in UKSUS" SRC="https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1589/26675559521_cdbac7bd2d_b.jpg"></IMG></A>
Starring <A HREF="http://www.theoperaoftimur.com" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Timur</A> as Pushkin, <A HREF="http://laurabohn.com" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Laura Bohn</A> as Fefjulka, <A HREF="http://www.nikolaprintz.com" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Nikola Printz</A> as Stalin, the unparalleled Bob Ernst as Michelangelo, and Roham Sheikani as many many things; accompanied by: Beth Custer, Rob Wilkins, Joel Davel, Diana Strong, John Schott, Ela Polak, Lisa Mezzacappa.
A phantasmagoria of delights, the music jazzy, racous, but bitterly sweet, UKSUS is the latest by Erling Wold, composer of the critically acclaimed <A HREF="http://www.sfgate.com/music/article/Certitude-and-Joy-review-Modern-passion-play-3430916.php" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Certitude and Joy</A>, <A HREF="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/little-girl-dreams-taking/id621724020" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">A Little Girl Dreams of Taking the Veil</A>, <A HREF="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TknpvrrxI6Y" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Queer</A>, and Mordake, who “crafts music whose delicate beauty glides in just below the listener's critical consciousness” (San Francisco Chronicle).
UKSUS is an autobiography of Daniil Kharms and the OBERIU in the Soviet Union of the 1930s, a narrative told through their stories and brief lives, as the OBERIU - The Association for Real Art - maintained their love of words and nonsensical art to their deaths in Stalin’s Great Purge, Kharms starving to death in a psychiatric hospital in 1942 after his arrest at the hands of the NKVD.
Kharms was well known for decades in Russia as a writer of books for children, even though he hated children and imagined their painful deaths, until his adult works, secreted away by a friend, were rediscovered and reclaimed by a new generation of troublemaker artists who have run afoul of the authorities. Pussy Riot claimed the OBERIU poets, saying they "remained artists until the end, inexplicable and incomprehensible, and the librettists, artistic descendents of the group, met working in the Moscow theater of Kirill Ganin, who himself was arrested for artistic hooliganism.
What are my transport/parking options getting to the event?
It's about a 20 minute walk from the 12th Street BART station, and there's a lovely parking garage just across the street. 
Where can I contact the organizer with any questions?
uksus@erlingwold.org

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