Hamid Rahmanian’s Song Of The North at Peter Norton Symphony Space
Posted by Tom Pryor on February 27, 2023
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Sun, March 26, 2023
3:00 pm
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This dynamic, family-friendly production involving close to 500 handmade puppets is bursting with “breathtaking fireworks of creativity” – Le Monde. Song of the North is a mesmerizing large-scale, cinematic performance combining the manual art of shadow puppetry with projected animation. The narrative tells the courageous tale of Princess Manijeh who defies her powerful father to rescue her beloved, Bijan, and avert war between rival kingdoms in a show of brave determination echoed in the protests taking place in Iran today. Adapted from the Shahnameh (the Persian “Book of Kings” written over 1,000 years ago), Song of the North was created by 2014 Guggenheim Fellow Hamid Rahmanian, and the original music score is by celebrated Iranian composer Ramin Torkian, featuring vocalist Azam Ali....