Musical conductor: Jordi Francès | Concept and stage direction: Xavier Sabata | Soloists of the Orchestra of the Teatro Real
This melodrama by the Austrian composer is based on a selection of 21 poems by Albert Giraud. And it will serve to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Arnold Schönberg, who in composing this work was extremely inspired by the verses of poems about love, religion, sex, violence, crime or blasphemy.
The “father” of 20th century vanguard music embraced atonality in 1908, but it was only in 1913 – with the premiere of his Pierrot lunaire, a fundamental work of modernism – that the radicality of his message found its place in a total approach: concept, poetry, diction, timbre and musical content came together in an organic artistic proposal. Less known is the fact that this was thanks to a woman –Albertine Zehme–, an audacious artist from the literary cabaret which the Austrian composer frequented in search of an adequate sound support for the verses of the symbolist poet, Albert Giraud, who fuses love, sex and religion, violence, crime, and blasphemy without interruption.
With cult status to our days, the piece comes to the stage in a scenic proposal by counter tenor Xavier Sabata. He approaches this song cycle - traditionally performed by female soloists - with a focus on the curiosity of Pierrot, a character who comes across as solitary and silent. On this occasion, he decides to speak up. Here, Pierrot and the figure of Narciso converse, with passages of Ovidio, «this one wasting away in his search to find and accept himself; while that one isolates himself, constructing an avatar to hide the suffering which comes with never finding a place of belonging”, in the words of Sabata.
Melodramma
Music by Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951), to seven poems by Albert Giraud
Premiere at the Berliner Choralion-Saal on 12 October 1912
Co-production from the Teatro Real and the Teatro de La Abadía on the original production by the Gran Teatre del Liceu
Artistic team
Musical conductor: Jordi Francès
Concept and stage direction: Xavier Sabata
Scenic space and lighting: CUBE.BZ
Movement: María Cabeza de Vaca
Cast
Soloist: Xavier Sabata
Soloists of the Orchestra of the Teatro Real
In commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Arnold Schönberg
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