
An Opera of the World
In An Opera of the World, Malian scholar and filmmaker Manthia Diawara reflects upon the refugee crisis and the relationship between Europe and Africa. The film revolves around a 2008 performance of Bintou Were, a Sahel Opera, by Zé Manel Fortes with a libretto by Koulsy Lamko, in Bamako, around which Diawara builds a story about migration, interweaving interviews with documentary and archival footage. In the course of the film, one crosses into the world of opera from the tradition of sung wisdoms and sentiments, which has characterized West African culture for centuries. If opera is often understood as an über-European art form—the Gesamtkunstwerk invoked by Richard Wagner—Diawara chooses to meditate on its movement or migration as opposed to its expansion or totality. What happens when opera moves south, from Europe to Africa, just as so many people from that continent are moving north, in search of better lives?
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GermanyDE
- TheatricalDocumenta 1410 Jun 2017
GreeceGR
- PremiereDocumenta 1411 Apr 2017
PortugalPT
- PremiereCineclube EA29 Mar 2022
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- An Opera of the World was released on 10 June 2017.
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- An Opera of the World (2017) was directed by Manthia Diawara.
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- An Opera of the World runs for 1h 11m.














