Miameide

Sirene Opera Theater presents a chamber opera by Julia Purgina about the language of plants.

Music: Julia Purgina
Lyrics: Kristine Tornquist
Animated film by Julia Libiseller

A sirene production in cooperation with PHACE and Momentum Vocal Music.

Mia can understand the language of plants. But there is no use for this ability in the world. At the employment office she is placed in jobs where plants are traded like objects. But she is no good as a flower saleswoman, nor in the wholesale nursery, wherever she goes, she always understands too much about the needs of plants. When she realizes that there is no place in the human world for those who can hear, she flees into another existence.

Even if we cannot hear them, the silent sisters are not mute. Their language is growth, their ceaseless unfolding, multiplying, branching and differentiating is their narrative of overcoming entropy.