HALKA/HAITI 18°48'05"N 72°23'01"W

Inspired and provoked by the title character in Werner Herzogs film Fitzcarraldo, two artists and a curator decide to revisit his m ad plan of bringing opera to the tropics. In an attempt to undercut Fitzcarraldos colonial romanticism, they decide to confront a s et of particular historical and sociopolitical realities by staging Halka, considered to be Polands national opera, in the seemin gly unlikely locale of Cazale, Haiti, a village inhabited by the descendants of Polish soldiers who fought for the Haitian Revolutio n in the earl...[Read more]