The Twilight of the Dreams

Tuesday, January 26 2021, 08:00 pm

Carmen Giannattasio - Ph. A. Sarno
Markus Werba
Alexandros Stavrakakis

Livestreaming Performance on the Teatro Massimo WebTv

This event is part of the project #apertinonostantetutto (We keep going, regardless)

Download the programme notes in Italian HERE

Music by Claudio Monteverdi, Henry Purcell, Joseph Haydn, Ludwig van Beethoven, Gioachino Rossini, Franz Schubert, Richard Wagner, Giuseppe Verdi, Modest Musorgskij, Arrigo Boito, Richard Strauss, Erich Korngold, Werner Richard Heymann, Chava Alberstein

Conductor Omer Meir Wellber
Director, dramaturgy, Scenes, Costumes and Lighting Designs Johannes Erath
Video Bibi Abel
Chorus Master Ciro Visco
Youth Chorus Master Salvatore Punturo
Coreographer Dies Irae Davide Bombana
Assistant Director Lorenzo Nencini
Coreographic Movements Ugo Ranieri

Cast

Soprano Carmen Giannattasio
Baritone Markus Werba
Basso Alexandros Stavrakakis

Teatro Massimo Orchestra, Chorus, Ballet and Youth Chorus

Sound Project & Design Manfredi Clemente
Concept and Broadcasting co-ordinator Gery Palazzotto
Television Producer Antonio Di Giovanni

Programme Notes (in Italian)

Highlights

Johannes Erath creates a site specific performance for the 2021 opening of the Teatro Massimo season, in live streaming, free of charge and accessible worldwide.

Il Crepuscolo dei Sogni (The Twilight of Dreams) is a site-specific opera by the German visionary director Johannes Erath who is making his debut in Italy and who is also responsible for the show’s dramaturgy and sets. Musical Director Omer Meir Wellber will be conducting. Every corner of the opera house becomes part of a wider stage, under a moonlight that tranforms everything it encounters. The scenic space will be completely transformed by the specifically created sets lit by a lunar light, immersed in a snow that covers and transfigures all shapes and forms. A different place that becomes the landscape of the soul and that recalls today’s condition, that of a disoriented and isolated humanity who has lost all certainties and reference points and is dealing with distances, separations, screens, and new communication modes. Within this suspended set, alternating hope and despondency, art and music remain the highest forms of hope.
Erath and Wellber thus create a musical “Winter Journey” through various moments from different operas, from Rossini to Verdi, from Monteverdi to the Lieder of Schubert and Richard Strauss, with the recurring presence of “Traviata”, whose protagonist is afflicted by a lung disease that reminds us of today’s human sufferings. This journey, that alternates contrasting feelings, culminates with the chorus from the Prologue of Arrigo Boito’s “Mefistofele” which, after showing us the most disenchanted and cynical aspects through Mefistofele’s aria, embodies the spirit that brings back light and hope, and with the final duet from Claudio Monteverdi’s “Incoronazione di Poppea”: two ecstatic moments, divine the first, terrestrial the second.

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