Art critic Jed and his wife Iris have always lived their life together on their own terms‚ falling out of love will be no different. Iris and Jed, rich and urbane, are happily getting divorced and are throwing an elaborate party to celebrate. The divorce papers are on their way, the friends arrive, the soiree is magnificent and the drama is astronomical. But even the most carefully choreographed event will never go exactly to plan. By the end of the evening, Iris and Jed‘s divorce has triggered a renegotiation of all certainties and as the sun rises, all of the characters are set on an unanticipated course. Families are re-united, deceit is revealed, greed is discovered, death is thwarted and love is lost and found. The couple‘s party plays out parallel to the arrival of gangsters and the threat of violence. Can love save the day? The Divorce is a humorous opera written for the screen. A fusion of film language and operatic conventions, it playfully reveals opera‘s capacity to illuminate human empathy. It rethinks the operatic art form for a contemporary audience through an imaginative new approach to a very traditional art form.
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