Exploring a futuristic and elegiac vision of the end of time, Even you, lights, cannot hear me is a new operatic spectacle based on a monologue from Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull. Two singers, depicted as two beings embodied into one entity, wander a surreal, yet exquisite cosmos, in which nothingness and wholeness coexist, timelessly.

Composed by award-winning artist Simone Spagnolo, this work originally arises from a concept by Simone Spagnolo and Dimitry Devdariani, with the wish to give a whole new life to Chekhov’s powerful writing, whilst challenging the contemporary notion of opera and music-theatre.

Try to imagine a spaceless world, where a two-headed creature sings, and the sound of a piano echoes through all its keys: this is the world of Even you, lights, cannot hear me. An operatic experience, an inextricable blend of music and theatre: a glimpse of life after the world’s end. Scored for two opera singers doubling on piano and pebbles, this work was premiered in 2016 at NSH Arts.
Subsequently, it made its debut at Opera in the City Festival, London, with five-star-review performances feature the mezzo-soprano Kate Symonds-Joy and baritone James Schouten.