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Bollywood Opera<\/h1><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Even though Charlotta hasn\u2019t had breakfast yet, she\u2019s bursting with energy, and seems to be constantly on the verge of laughter. With burning passion, she turns immediately to the core of the project:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 I reacted to the polarisation. If we divide people in to \u201cus\u201d and \u201cthem\u201d, it dehumanises \u201cthem\u201d. A number of world wars have taught us this.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charlotta wants to spotlight \u201cus\u201d by showing our shared historical roots, and how well different culture\u2019s expressions can fit together. She sets off from her own art form, opera, but this project also includes other \u201cpieces of the puzzle, from different stages in life\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 When I was 16 years old, I ran away to Sir Lanka. There, I learned to love the Bollywood music. I also studied musicology at the Lund university, where the presumption was that opera as an art form was born in Hindustan, 5,000 years ago. All of these pieces of the puzzle began to fit together in my mind.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

People have migrated across the earth, and brought their culture, and their music, with them. Charlotta explains how the music of Hindustan made its way to southern Europe, where the Baroque era would eventually pick up these melodies, and produce opera as we know it today:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 If you think of human migration across the globe as a spreading of branches, we\u2019ve wandered and spread our branches across the globe as if embracing it. And the little leaves on the ends of these branches are individual people. The wheel is another image I use in the project. I think that returning opera to the country where it was born is a way of closing the cycle, like karma and recycling!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charlotta has reworked G. Rossini\u2019s opera L\u2019italiana in Algeri, which is full of comic moments. Around 200 amateurs and professionals take part, some of them children from the Bollywood dance class led by Usha Balasundaram. She cracks a smile while talking:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 But isn\u2019t curiosity the opposite of fear? If people dare to make their way forward using their curiosity, and if they see that different cultures can go together very well, then maybe they\u2019ll apply the same idea to people as well?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Text: Elin Borrie<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Magazine Subtopia nr. 9<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Magazine Subtopia met Charlotta Huldt Ramberg, a member of KLUMP Subtopia, who is also the initiator of the community project BollywoodOpera in Botkyrka
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