Ofelia's Life-Dream
for vocalist and electronics

Ofelia's Life-Dream by Caroline Louise Miller

Trailer for the Short Film version, produced by Guerilla Opera, directed by Laine Rettmer, and starring Aliana de la Guardia. Premiered Nov.–Dec. 2020 as part of the Guerilla Underground Virtual Speakeasy.

A woman finds herself at a difficult life crossroads, names herself “Ofelia” and embarks on a poetic inner journey. Dreaming that she is drowning, she contemplates biological cycles of life and death, embodying three organisms along the way: a tropical bioluminescent fungi, a moth that drinks the tears of sleeping birds, and a giant palm tree that fruits once in hundred years, then collapses upon itself and dies. The use of the name “Ofelia,” an altered spelling of “Ophelia,” is a feminist rewriting and extrapolation of Shakespeare’s famous female character. Whereas Shakespeare’s Ophelia is defined by men and the control they exert over her life, Ofelia exists in the universe of this piece as a fully-realized person with a rich inner world that is poetic, intellectual, spiritual, and scientific all at once.

 

 

 

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