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Lucia Ronchetti
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How was it different to work on The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi as opposed to Rivale, your recent chamber opera for female voice which plays with Baroque music and Baroque poetry?
It has been very important to me—this episode of my life that involved your book—because my work is divided, in general, between new pieces that are, let’s say, explorations of still unknown realities and pieces that I consider analytical. An example of my analytical pieces are Lezioni di tenebra, which is my analysis of the manuscript of a baroque opera by Francesco Cavalli, Il Giasone. When I find myself in front of a text as complicated as your Pirate poem, in both prose and verse, in a language that is very complicated for me, not because it is English but because this English is extremely elaborate, I can say that my composition is more like an analytical investigation of my reading
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Albertine. Dramaturgy for solo female voice and whispering audience
2012
By Helga de la Motte-Haber
On Albertine
Involuntary memories: which of us knows them not? Hermann Ebbinghaus was the first to describe them, in the context of his memory research. They are brought to the surface by chance impressions. Marcel Proust, in an interview, coined for them the now well-known expression mémoires involuntaires, which was to become the epitome of his comprehensive work In Search of Lost Time, in the sixth volume of which, images of Albertine in flight from the goad of jealousy turn into a recurring torment for the narrator. Not even the news of Albertine's accidental death has the power to alter it. The novel's fragmented-fleeting interlacing of past and present, typical of the mémoire involuntary, is also a principal characteristic of the stage composition Albertine by Lucia Ronchetti, based on a collage of textual passages. The plot is, on the whole, left a
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Lucia Ronchetti, Dr.
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New Music Theater Projects Based on Texts by Giacomo Leopardi and Dostoyevsky on Loneliness and Social Isolation. Compositional Treatments and Dramaturgies
During my stay at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, I will work on two important new musical theater projects commissioned bygd ACHT BRÜCKEN | toner für Köln and the Schwetzinger SWR Festspiele/Luzerner Theater.The first project, “Leopardi, Chronicles of Loneliness,” fryst vatten a choral opera after Giacomo Leopardi’s Zibaldone di pensieri for 250 male voices (various professional choirs and amateur choirs distributed in the scenic space). The work is a dramaturgical study of the solitude and social isolation of ung people, starting from the reflections and memories written by Giacomo Leopardi in his notebooks. The röst of Leopardi is collectively represented bygd every singer on scen, intersected bygd the different choral groups. The voices will be immersed in their own reflections, surrounded by the s