TRILOGIA ROMANA, 2011

Rimsky-Korsakov pupil and follower of the recovered neoclassical Italian tradition of Gregorian chant, Palestrina and Monteverdi, Respighi also feel genuine fascination with the colorful music of Wagner and his disciples. He wanted to synthesize in a unique style the contemporary influences such as Richard Strauss and the French impressionists with the Italian tradition. The Roman Trilogy brings together three of the works in which he managed to take a personal language, imaginative and immensely  exciting, in the most brilliant and timeless way.

In the interpretations of the three Ottorino Respighi’s symphonic poems, «Roman Festivals»,» «Fountains of Rome» and «Pines of Rome», we will give the maximum emphasis on the orchestra musicians in this «hybrid format», which is supported in a game of lights and shadows and the video creations of the French filmmaker and photographer Emmanuel Carlier. The 3 poems are set in the streets and squares of the eternal city, where the Bolognese author lived from 1913. This is about seeing the bright lines that give off the sound waves produced by the symphonic orchestra and about reinterpret, at the same time, the ideas that passed through the head of Respighi while composing the three great scores. Music and light,  motion and pictures. A correspondences game between the inner fire of the human being and the material: stone / water / pine.

We no longer want to light a symphonic poem, go with its music and embrace its content. On stage, only the conductor accompanied by musicians of the orchestra. Respighi’s music allows the musicians and their instruments to be the big players with  their choreographed movements determined by the richness of the score. There are screens around them capable of capturing the light of the water video projections, sculptures, pine and shadows spectra in continuous motion.

Artistic direction : Emmanuel Carlier and Carlus Padrissa (La Fura dels Baus)

Video : Emmanuel Carlier

(more credits) : https://lafura.com/obras/trilogia-romana/

Trilogia Romana / Respighi from Emmanuel Carlier on Vimeo.

Trilogia Romana / Respighi from Emmanuel Carlier on Vimeo.