Operaperformance: As If No Misfortune Had Occurred in the Night – med sopran Nour Darwish

Name: Operaperformance: As If No Misfortune Had Occurred in the Night – med sopran Nour Darwish
Start: 2026-02-12T19:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-02-12T20:00:00+01:00
Location: Kongens Nytorv 1, 1050 Copenhagen, Denmark

Schedule

Thu Feb 12 2026 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Kongens Nytorv 1, 1050 Copenhagen, Denmark | Copenhagen , SK

Som en del af Larissa Sansours udstilling præsenterer Kunsthal Charlottenborg danmarkspremieren på 'As If No Misfortune Had Occurred in the Night' – et tværæstetisk værk, hvor billedkunst, opera og sorgritualer sammensmeltes i en audiovisuel performance.
As If No Misfortune Had Occurred in the Night er skabt af billedkunstnerne Larissa Sansour og Søren Lind, og beskæftiger sig med nedarvede traumer, tab og sorg. Arien fremføres af den palæstinensiske sopran Nour Darwish og er komponeret af den libanesiske komponist Anthony Sahyoun. Kompositionen bygger på den østrigske komponist Gustav Mahlers Kindertotenlieder fra 1905 og den palæstinensiske folkesang Al Ouf Mash’al.
Kindertotenlieder er Mahlers tonesætning af Friedrich Rückerts digte, som han skrev efter tabet af to af sine børn. I Al Ouf Mash’al sørger en palæstinensisk kvinde over tabet af sin elskede, der blev hvervet til den osmanniske hær under Første Verdenskrig. Disse to musikalske traditioner væves sammen til en smuk klagesang over mere end hundrede års sorg.
Operaen vises i en særlig scenografi på Takkelloftet, hvor Nour Darwishs liveoptræden integreres i en videoinstallation optaget i et forladt kapel. Her kombineres dokumentariske optagelser fra Imperial War Museum med arkivmateriale fra Første Verdenskrig og kunstnerens egne animerede tableauer.
As If No Misfortune Had Occurred in the Night opføres kun denne ene aften i København. Larissa Sansours soloudstilling These Moments Will Disappear Too kan opleves på Kunsthal Charlottenborg frem til 15. februar 2026.
Tidspunkt: 12. februar 2026, kl. 19.00-20.00
Sted: Takkelloftet, Ekvipagemestervej 10, 1438 København K
Billetter: https://shop.kunsthalcharlottenborg.dk/events/c36fc15c-9396-4846-966f-0d8fabb7b538/checkout
Billede: Larissa Sansour & Søren Lind, As If No Misfortune Had Occurred in the Night, 2022. Still from film, 3-
channel, 21 min. Courtesy of the artists.
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As part of Larissa Sansour’s exhibition, Kunsthal Charlottenborg presents the Danish premiere of As If No Misfortune Had Occurred in the Night – a cross disciplinary work in which visual art, opera, and mourning rituals merge in an audiovisual performance.
As If No Misfortune Had Occurred in the Night is created by artists Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind and engages with inherited trauma, loss, and grief. The aria is performed by the Palestinian soprano Nour Darwish and composed by the Lebanese composer Anthony Sahyoun. The composition is based on Austrian composer Gustav Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder from 1905 and the Palestinian folk song Al Ouf Mash’al.
Kindertotenlieder is Mahler’s musical setting of Friedrich Rückert’s poems, written after the loss of two of his children. In Al Ouf Mash’al, a Palestinian woman mourns the loss of her beloved, who was conscripted into the Ottoman army during World War I. These two musical traditions intertwine in a moving lament over more than a hundred years of grief.
The opera is presented in a special scenography at Takkelloftet, where Nour Darwish’s live performance is integrated into a video installation filmed in an abandoned chapel and combined with documentary footage from the Imperial War Museum, archival material from World War I, and the artist’s own animated tableaux.
As If No Misfortune Had Occurred in the Night will be performed on this one evening only in Copenhagen. Larissa Sansour’s solo exhibition These Moments Will Disappear Too can be experienced at Kunsthal Charlottenborg until 15 February 2026.
Time: 12 February 2026, 19.00-20.00
Place: Takkelloftet, Ekvipagemestervej 10, 1438 København K
Tickets: https://shop.kunsthalcharlottenborg.dk/events/c36fc15c-9396-4846-966f-0d8fabb7b538/checkout
Image: Larissa Sansour & Søren Lind, As If No Misfortune Had Occurred in the Night, 2022. Still from film, 3-
channel, 21 min. Courtesy of the artists.