In his first ever opera production, artist Dejan Kaludjerović teams ups with composer and musician Marija Balubdžić, theater director Bojan Djordjev, and author and librettist Tanja Šljivar to ask how children interpret today’s complex political reality.

Since 2013, Dejan Kaludjerović has been developing the Conversations series, having interviewed, so far, forty-nine children in seven countries for a total duration of approximately twenty-two hours. Each time, a series of about fifty questions is asked on political issues such as social exclusion and inclusion, foreigners, language, isolation, war, money, poverty, work, and so on. Each Conversation, shown in site-specific sound installations, turns into a litmus test for the society where it was created. In this new version of his ongoing project, the witty, hilarious, poignant, and insightful answers of children are taken as material for an opera, performed by four adult performers of different musical backgrounds. Their voices are mixed with samples from the original interviews, turning them into beats, chords, and soundscapes, the music ranging from pop and house to hymnic, burlesque, full-scale “operatic” and back.