Attention music lovers: this Thursday (March 9), from 4.30 pm -and if you are under 35-, you can get in La Rural (Av. Santa Fe and Av. Sarmiento) the Retentive inputs for the function Resurrection this same Thursday at 8:30 p.m., for just $1,000.
The purchase must be made in person with an identity document. Quotas are limited. You can get a maximum of 2 tickets per person and the location will be chosen in order of arrival. When entering La Rural you must present your ID.
Presented the Teatro Colón Resurrection to commemorate 40 years of the resumption of democracy in Argentina.
unusual opening
The unusual opening of the season outside the theatre, in the Ocra Pavilion of La Rural, had to do with the unique stage production of Symphony No. 2, Resurrectionby Gustav Mahler, directed by Romeo Castellucci. The musical direction is by Charles Dutoit, head of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Buenos Airesnext to the soprano Jaquelina Livieri and the mezzo-soprano Guadalupe Barrientos.
The powerful production was conceived by Castellucci for a large informal space, where normally there is no fiction – says the critic of clarion-. There, according to the director, his proposal to establish new relationships between stage and music develops more freely.
This indicates, among other things, the staging of the symphony. It is not an illustration, the staging and the symphony function as two completely different objects entering into virtuoso friction.
Like the indifferent effect of the precious melodies of the second movement as the bodies are exhumed. The same effect of nature’s indifference stops the horror that is anticipated by the song of the birds, at the beginning of the work, when the bodies are discovered.
horror and beauty
Without a precise meaning, the work advances without univocal meanings, and this is one of its great attractions. It is not an ideological theatre, there is no pedagogy or didactics.
Castellucci, through Mahler, puts horror before the eyes of the spectator without renouncing beauty. He creates a sort of cathartic, disturbing ritual which updates the Mahler meaning of resurrection: today its meaning is, thanks to the spirit of collaboration, to exhume the bodies to give a worthy burial to those who were victims of the various contemporary tragedies.
The first thing the viewer is shown, beyond the pit in which the Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir are located, is a huge expanse (600 tons) of black earth. On a soundscape, with birds, a majestic white horse appears from one of the two doors, crosses the scene, sniffs and reveals a residue, which will soon be identified as human.
To the rhythm of the music
The orchestra attacked the symphony’s poignant opening with precision. The tone of a funeral rite that prevails in the first movement coexists with the work of exhumation of the bodies.
After the initial shock, the operators of the UNHCR (United Nations Refugee Agency) carry out the slow process – gradually more and more mechanized – of exhumation, identification, placing of the bodies in white bags, and finally their transfer in vans to a worthy destination.
Everything happens to the rhythm of the music that persists in the first four movements –the five-minute pause that Mahler indicated after the first movement has been respected-, shot through with doubts about life and death, moments of vitality, before the final judgment and unconditional salvation.
Source: Clarin
