Event Details - Works and Progress: 4711 – Intercourse with Ghosts, Excerpts and discussion from Hiroya Miura's new opera based on the texts by Franz Kafka and Milena Jesenská

With guest performers, Annabelle Plum, Akihito Obama and Hidejiro Honjoh, the concert will showcase the excerpts from the opera featuring extended voice, shakuhachi, and shamisen, Japanese traditional instruments. 4711 is a multilingual opera reimagining the correspondence between Franz Kafka and Milena Jesenská, exploring themes of isolation, identity, and the 'impossibility of writing