Coelacanth at Den Norske Opera & Ballett

An extraordinarily spirited performance about love, resurrection and how we learn to fear the dark. Three weeks before the start of rehearsals at the Norwegian National Opera & Ballet, two scriptwriters are desperately seeking characters for a production based on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. They have not yet written one word when they go astray in the underworld in New York’s arts scene and come across Lisa Reynolds, who is carrying an incomplete manuscript written by her now deceased father …

With 12 musicians on stage, newly composed music and a theatre piece in three acts, Alan Lucien Øyen and co-writer Andrew Wale have come up with their biggest project to date for the Winter Guests ensemble.

Coelacanth is grandiose, humoristic and self-referential – an odyssey that spans from Tokyo to Sydney and New York. In Alan Lucien Øyen’s characteristic style he mixes elements from many genres, from pop culture to classical mythology.