Fanny & Alexander, Muziektheater Transparant, Claron McFadden, Emanuele Wiltsch Barberio | THE GARDEN
Fanny & Alexander, Muziektheater Transparant, Claron McFadden, Emanuele Wiltsch Barberio
The Garden
The Garden by Fanny & Alexander is an installation for 7 screens, voice, and electronics, which oscillates between a baroque still life and a contemporary documentary, reflecting on the theme of suffering in the arts. «Why does a subject like suffering recur so often in art? Are we nothing more than consumers of the pain of others, or is there truly a space in us for compassion? Is there a sublime beauty in suffering? An ambiguity? What are the stories of our time that reverberate this suffering? Must art absorb this instance?»
To answer these questions, director Luigi De Angelis with soprano Claron McFadden and composer Emanuele Wiltsch Barberio is preparing a musical gallery of lamentations and musical memories of the past that call back to the theme of suffering: from Monteverdi to J. C. Bach, from Nina Simone to Giovanni Legrenzi, through Barbara Strozzi and John Downland. The arching vocals, wrapped in a contemporary electronic music dimension, become an emotional testimony of the suffering of others, and the protagonists of a video/concert halfway between baroque still life and contemporary ritual.
concept, direction, playwriting, video: Luigi De Angelis
costumes (video): Chiara Lagani
vocals: Claron McFadden
live looping: Emanuele Wiltsch Barberio
sound direction: Damiano Meacci (Tempo Reale)
olfactory fragrances: Integra Fragrances
a Fanny & Alexander production / E Production, Muziektheater Transparant
co-production: Romaeuropa Festival, Klarafestival
CALENDAR
Romaeuropa Festival, 9-10 October 2021, Rome, Mattatoio / Teatro 1 (debut)
Tickets: https://romaeuropa.net/festival-2021/the-garden/
- Festival for Opera. Music. Theatre., 25 – 26 May 2022, Rotterdam (NL), De Doelen – Eduard Flipse Zaal
Tickets: https://o-festival.nl/en/voorstelling/the-garden/
Ravenna Festival, 5-6 july 2022, Ravenna, Artificerie Almagià, via dell’ Almagià 2 – Ravenna, ore 21
Tickets: https://www.ravennafestival.org/en/events/the-garden/
November Music, 8 November 2022, Verkadefabriek (NL)
Info: https://www.novembermusic.net/programma/muziektheater-transparant-cl-130124
ATELIERSI, 14 and 15 December 2022, Bologna
Info and tickets: https://ateliersi.it/si/en/fanny-alexander-muziektheater-transparant-claron-mc-fadden-emanuele-wiltsch-barberio-the-garden-14-15-12-2022/
