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OPERAP: THE BLIND // SELARYON / DHALAXIS // REALIZED 2025

OPERAP: The Blind

Two faces of one civilization. One dying planet. A climate catastrophe no one is willing to see.

MUSIC THEATREPREMIERED 2025
Meet the world’s two faces
ONE PLANET // TWO FACES

THE BLIND ARE US

Two philosophies of life.
The same blindness.

Selaryon and Dhalaxis are not separate realities. They are two faces of the same contemporary world — two ways of living on one planet approaching climate collapse.

Inspired by Maurice Maeterlinck’s play, the eco-opera expands blindness from an enclosed island to an entire civilization. Opera, rap, orchestra and electronics are not ornaments here: they are the languages of two societies able to see one another, but not their own ending.

MAP OF A CIVILIZATION

The same time.
The same planet.

01 / SELARYON

Beauty as a blindfold.

A charming countryside, gardens and palaces. A world of tradition, ritual and abundance that mistakes its own order for safety. Nature is treated as decoration — even as it begins to die.

02 / DHALAXIS

Chaos as everyday life.

A dirty, overcrowded dystopian city. Noise, anger, technology and the struggle to survive consume every thought. Crisis is visible everywhere — yet the planet’s catastrophe remains unseen.

DIFFERENT PHILOSOPHIES / SHARED BLINDNESS

A silver-robed performer sings amid low fog before a futuristic garden projection.
01 / ONE VOICESELARYON

In Selaryon, beauty

becomes a blindfold.
A full-stage tableau appears beneath a projected tree, amber beams and low fog.
02 / A WORLD IN FULLSELARYON
Two pale-clad performers face each other before a blindfolded chorus in magenta light.
03 / FACE TO FACESELARYON
Two pale-clad performers sing together before a blindfolded chorus under blue light.
04 / TWO VOICESSELARYON
THE CENTRAL QUESTIONAlmost everything divides them. Their blindness to catastrophe unites them.

DHALAXIS // THE PLANET’S OTHER FACE

The city sees everything.
Not its ending.

GRIME / DENSITY / REVOLT / TECHNOLOGY

An ensemble stands under blue beams and a projected desert landscape.
05 / A NEW HORIZONDHALAXIS
A central pale-robed performer stands beneath a black circular projection and blue beams.
06 / BLACK SUNDHALAXIS
Two central performers face each other on a wide stage divided by red beams.
07 / RED SHIFTDHALAXIS
A blindfolded vocalist faces a silver-robed performer against a red projection.
08 / FRICTIONDHALAXIS

LUXANN // THE EMISSARY

She comes to save the world.
She dies with it.

Luxann arrives on a mission of rescue and tries to reach both Selaryon and Dhalaxis. She cannot break their collective blindness or stop the catastrophe. In the final act, she joins her mind with the Planet — and when it dies, Luxann dies with it.

  1. 01 / ARRIVALRescue

    Luxann stands between civilization’s two faces and tries to wake them in time.

  2. 02 / FAILURECatastrophe

    Neither society can abandon its blindness. The Planet can no longer be saved.

  3. 03 / UNIONDeath

    Luxann binds her mind to the dying Planet and shares its final fate.

Three pale-clad figures stand in warm light above low stage fog.
09 / AFTERIMAGECODA

END OF THE PLANET // BEGINNING OF THE TESTIMONY

The world dies.
The story remains.

FULL COMPANY // PREMIERED 2025

Creators and performers.

A large company of artists stood behind the story: soloists, rappers, orchestra and choir brought together in a single music-theatre production.

Form
Eco-opera · rap · music theatre
Premiere
Katowice · 5 June 2025
Source
Inspired by Maurice Maeterlinck’s The Blind
Theme
Climate catastrophe and collective blindness

Creative team

DirectionMarco Steeger
Script & librettoWojciech Hendryk Stawiński
Music & programmingWojciech Hendryk Stawiński
Music & orchestrationJean-Claude Hauptmann
ConductorJean-Claude Hauptmann
ChoreographyMarta Brendel
CostumesMateusz Karolczuk
Animation & multimedia scenographyDaniel Zduńczyk · Virtual Magic
OrchestraArtis Symphony Orchestra
ChoirResonans con Tutti · prepared by Arlena Różycka-Gałązka and Waldemar Gałązka
Organizer2s2s

Cast

Opera

  • Piotr Buszewski (tenor) — Alaric
  • Adriana Ferfecka (soprano) — Luxann
  • Karina Skrzeszewska (soprano) — Viviana
  • Łukasz Karauda (baritone) — Orion
  • Łukasz Dulewicz (countertenor) — Cyrax

Rap

  • O.S.T.R. — Tayo
  • Grubson — Kane
  • asthma — Dex
  • Falcon1 — DJ

Guest roles

  • Iwona Loranc — Mira
  • Alicja Szemplińska — Thalima
  • Michał Sołtan — The Elder / King of Dhalaxis
  • Ola z Paryża — Elara
The full OPERAP: The Blind cast stands together on stage after the performance.
REALIZED WORK / KATOWICE / 2025

MIRA // INTERREAL BEING // TRANSMISSION

THE BLIND → HAMLET.EXEThe tragedy must be
told onward.

Mira does not bridge Selaryon and Dhalaxis — both belong to the same dying world. An interreal being, she crosses from the world of The Blind into the world of HAMLET.EXE. Hers is the Hamlet-like duty of the witness: to preserve the memory of catastrophe and carry its story to other worlds.

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