Claudio Cavina says he plays Baroque music "is within the" more than Vivaldi or Bach.
The countertenor, instrumentalist and Italian director Claudio Cavina has ensured that the Baroque music ensemble plays with his 'La Venexiana' this 'inside' the, but that of composers like Vivaldi and Bach, and is "the maximum" of their life.
So he said at a press conference during the presentation of the opera 'Orfeo' by Monteverdi, to interpret this Thursday with 'La Venexiana', ffxiv gil, at the Palais des Festivals, in the programming of the Santander International Festival (FIS) .
The band, founded by Cavina in 1998, interpreting the works created by Claudio Monteverdi and premiered in 1607, which, as explained above, during the first part of the show, "the public will see a party," which corresponds to the wedding Orpheus, where "everyone is happy," which incorporates the orchestra on, ffxiv gil, stage, as "playing the music of the party."
Moments later there is a lady who gives the news of the death of the bride, Euridice, so that "the party '" and "appears the Fire."
At present, said Cavina, "Hell is normal life," so that the work represents only "turning the tables on the wedding," he had on stage. "It's, tera gold, like watching something almost normal, but fails to be the same" as shown "backwards."
In addition, the devils in the play are "people we can find in the street, but that is not good," some "gangsters" who decide on the death and life, he explained.
At this stage performance, the singers appear with a clothing line the character they play, and sing without music, gestualizando and "doing a story."
Also played with the lights that change color "depending on the intention stage." Thus, during the wedding will be white, red with Hell, etcetera.
According Cavina, "the word and poetry are the most important of the work, more important than the music" which "must be in contact with each word."
So, he recalled the words of the composer Monteverdi in relation to this issue, "when the word cry, the music has to mourn, and when the floor laughing, the music has to laugh."
The music used is "exactly" the same as Monteverdi wrote for more than four years, "with the instruments placed in the score."
These instruments, he explained, are historical, with harps, trombones and violins, "all old."
In this sense, has noted that "if one plays well, no problem" to be interpreted with modern instruments, but Cavina "prrs" to use the old ones. '
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The ensemble was created, as its founder explained, after which Cavina was part of several Italian groups and would like to "squeeze" their own ideas, instead of "other."
"It's a group that prrs the music of the seventeenth century, where the poetry is the most important expression," said Cavina.
"We do not Vivaldi or Bach, Monteverdi do", since the Baroque music that interpret this "inside" the, "more than the other." "It's like for a German to Bach, the most out of life is the most out of my experience," he commented.
The acting, "only in Spain, will be Thursday at 21 am in Conference Room of the Palais des Festivals Argenta, and closing the loop 'stage magic. Opera and Ballet ', the FIS.