SPE (PERFORMANCE AND EXHIBITION SPACE) - AT 19.30
23 NOVEMBER 2019
Auser Musici/Petra Magoni
Morire d'amore
(Die of Love)
DEATH AS CATHARSIS
IN FEMALE DRAMA
winning project of the open call Of Death and Dying
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project premiere by Carlo Ipata with Petra Magoni and Auser Musici
programme
Henry Purcell (1659-1695) Lamento di Didone
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) Lamento d'Arianna
Leonardo Vinci (1690-1730) from Didone abbandonata:
aria - Son regina Sono amante; aria - Se vuoi ch'io mora; recitative and aria - Dunque morir dovrò
Louis-Nicolas Clérambault (1678 - 1749), cantata teatrale Medea
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voice Petra Magoni
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Auser Musici
flute and director Carlo Ipata
violins Mauro Lopes Ferreira, Enrico Bernini
viola Daniele Del Lungo
cello Valeria Brunelli
double bass Francesco Tomei
tiorba Francesco Romano
harpsichord Alessandra Artifoni
Auser Musici is in residence at the Teatro di Pisa and benefits from the support of Regione Toscana
Two apparently distant realties meet in this project: the immense vocal versatility of Petra Magoni and the passion for the aesthetics and the baroque dramaturgy of Carlo Ipata and his Auser Musicians. The common thread is the role of death with which the great female figures of classical theatre, such as Ariadne, Dido and Medea, are confronted.
From Monteverdi to Purcell, via Vinci and Clérambault, the great composers of the past have set to music the torments and passions of the heroines who, with extreme courage, face the male figures Theseus, Aeneas and Jason, finding that death and suicide are the only way to escape their only apparent condition of weakness.
For these heroines death is always an inevitable destiny, whether it is greeted with joy or sorrow, and is always tied to love, even if in a different way each time: for Dido, suicide is the only way to end the dichotomy of being queen and the need/ability to love someone (impossible love); for Ariadne, death is the only way to cope with lost love; for Medea, in the cantata by Clérambault, murder is the way to deal with betrayed love.
