"From the New World"

In a theatrical reimagining of the classical concert form, director Christian Lollike, composer Matias Vestergård, and video scenographer Astrid Steiner stages Dvorák’s Symphony No. 9 in a radically new way with Copenhagen Phil.

Introducing new text, music, visuals, and live performance with rapper Al Agami, soprano Juliana Zara, and actor Simon Matthew between the original symphony’s movements, Enter Ghost’s version of From the New World asked audiences to revisit Dvorák’s question of what the sound of the new world would sound like today; not in 19th century America, but in our age of interconnected crises, climate disaster, and barren imaginaries in a hybrid form between classical concert, theatre performance, and video projection.

From the New World is the first iteration of Copenhagen Phil’s series reimagining of the classical concert form, Melodrama.

All photos by Kim Matthäi Leland.

“Christian Lollike and Copenhagen Phil give the concert format an excellent transformation pill." – Dagbladet Information.

“With the concert format 'Melodrama', the Copenhagen Phil symphony orchestra has taken its wildest step yet in renewing the classical concert form." – Politiken