Pierrot redux

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Viel's sound setting starts with two people, a woman and a man, returning from a night of revelry who stop to look at the moon. A soprano and a baritone, two faces of a single character who is splitting, dividing, fragmenting. The multitude of voices, which everyone brings, takes over, crumbling Pierrot. Fragments that in turn become characters detached from the original but merged with it, disjointed but together, isolated but also in unison. Particles of a subjectivity that persist in the night, in a party that, in reality, is already over but that lingers in the energy of that single shattered body, in the procrastination of the intoxication. Pierrot Redux is the residue of a rave party; a transition between night and day, a stellar interposition. Pierrot Redux is an eclipse; the sun is occluded by the moon, obscured, and only fringes of light and glare pass through the solar galaxy, not allowing dawn to break up the party, the body to come together as one. In this slow transition, the moon stands between Schoenberg's remains and Viel's rewriting, creating a cone of penumbra, a celestial shadow that vaporises Pierrot Lunaire in its contemporary ghosts.

Written by Massimiliano Viel, for two voices, 7 instruments and electronic music, the chamber opera takes as its point of reference Pierrot Lunaire by Arnold Schoenberg which, with its music revolutionary nature, is the basis of modernity first and then of the contemporary, and the collection of poems Pierrot lunaire: Rondels bergamasques by the Belgian poet Albert Giraud, the basis of Schoenberg's work.

year

2022

running time

0:75:0.0

genre

chamber opera

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PIERROT REDUX
opera -cabaret in 7x3 scenes

> music by Massimiliano Viel
> soprano Felicita Brusoni
> baritono Victor Andrini

> Icarus ensemble

> conductor Dario Garegnani
> directing, set, costume and lights Filippo Andreatta
> assistant directing Thaiz Bozano
> stage manager Davide Finotti
> lights master Giacomo Pieracci
> ravers Matilde Bignamini, Elena Rosetti, Filippo Beltrami, Lucas Delfino, Davide Tagliavini

> chief electrician Alessandro Pasqualini
> vice chief stage technician Andrea Testa
> costume-maker Monica Salsi
> chief audio-video technician Luca Cattini
> props Massimo Foroni

> new production and commission Fondazione I Teatri / festival Aperto

production history

07.X.22 > festival Aperto, Fondazione I Teatri di Reggio Emilia > premiere
09.X.22 > festival Aperto, Fondazione I Teatri di Reggio Emilia

PIERROT REDUX