SPE - PERFORMANCE AND EXHIBITION SPACE 21.00
SATURDAY 28 JANUARY 2017
Associazione Nuovo Coro Lirico Sinfonico Romano
Princesa e Caffariello
voices, betrayals, revelations
ballad for pop voice, contertenor, vocal octet accordion and instrumental ensemble
Antonio Faieta pop voice
Raffaele Schiavo countertenor
Petrassi Choir octet
Cornelia Dupré and Keiko Morikawa sopranos
Elisa Maiorano and Ornella Scocca altos
Renato Moro and Leonardo Trinciarelli tenors
David Ravignani e Andrea Tulli baritones
Francesco Gesualdi accordion
Antonio Caggiano percussion
Pentarte ensemble
Fabio Sepe clarinet
Guglielmo Cetto sax
Luca Lupi guitar
Massimiliano Favella bass
Stefano Cucci director
music by Stefano Cucci
texts and direction by Antonio Faieta
coroliricosinfonicoromano.it
organisation: Elisa Maiorano director, Ornella Scocca secretary
Princesa e Caffariello: betrayals and revelations in the voices of a present-day transgender and a castrato soprano of the 18th century. The voice of Princesa “betrays” the achievement of her objective: the transformation of her own body. The voice of Caffariello “reveals” all the inherent characteristics of a female voice in a male body. The cue is given by a song by Fabrizio De Andrè and Ivano Fossati: Princesa, in turn, comes from the homonymous biography of Fernanda Farias and Maurizio Jannelli. The Princesa voice is intertwined with that of Gaetano Majorano known as Caffariello. In the construction of the ballad, the original melody is the germ from which flow intense and lyrical moments alternating with elements of uncertainty or randomness. The original melody appears only after the choir’s speech, the archetype from which begins the compositional process that treats voices and instruments as authentic characters in a theatrical piece. The pop voice and the soprano are grafted together through quotations from the virtuoso repertoire of the 18th century. The Choir has the function of a kind of “historian" articulating the dramatic development of the text and creating little harmonic intermezzos between one section and the other.
The artistic director of the musical events of the Assemblaggi Provvisori season is Antonio Caggiano
