An opera for two singers, small ensemble, and electronics
Date: 2025
Language: Portuguese
Duration: 16 minutes
Small-scale
Shadow/Body (female): soprano
Shadow/Body (male): baritone
House: flute
Shadow/Long: piano
Shadow/High: cello
Pawn: timbila
Ground: bandoneon
“K_aleidoscópio is an exercise in imagining a future in which organic bodies are replaced by others. It is a programme in which what was thought impossible to normalise becomes normalised. This future does not invent possibilities that are very distant in time. We present an exercise of the future – or [where we are going] – grounded in characters of the present: the Shadows and the Bodies. Shadows and Bodies that do not need proper names, because that is the perspective of the future: nameless people. Dispensable Bodies and Shadows that do not show themselves.”1
Fl | Pf | Vc | Timbila | Bandoneon | Elec
Date: 2025
Venue: Espaço QC, Porto
Commission: Quarteto Contratempus
Cast: Teresa Nunes, Tiago Matos, Clara Saleiro, Sérgio de A, Carolina Freitas, Léo Zango and Santiago Gutiérrez
1. Quarteto Contratempus “Ópera K_aleidoscópio (2025),” accessed February 1, 2026 https://www.quartetocontratempus.com/eventos/contrapartituras-para-onde-vamos-opera-k_alendoscopio-estreia/