A LAUGH TO CRY • ÓPTICAS CONTEMPORANEAS
domingo, 29/10
|Santiago de Compostela
A Laugh to Cry Opera for 3 singers (2 sopranos and bass-baritone), 2 narrators, 7 instruments, live electronics and video (2013) Co-commissioned by the Warsaw Autumn & the Ernst von Siemens Foundation
Time & Location
29/10/2023, 19:00
Santiago de Compostela, Monte Gaiás, s/n, 15707 Santiago de Compostela, La Coruña, Spain
About the Event
Miguel Azguime libreto, música Paula Azguime encenação
Pedro Neves direcção
Camila Mandillo soprano Andrea Conangla soprano André Henriques baixo barítono Miguel Azguime recitante Jade Mandillo recitante
Sílvia Cancela flauta Nuno Pinto clarinete Vítor Vieira violino Jorge Alves viola Luís André Ferreira violoncelo Francisco Cabrita piano João DIas percussão
Andre Bartetzki live electronics, direcção tecnológica Perseu Mandillo VFX & 3D, fotografia Margarida Moreira luz Miso Studio técnica
A Laugh to Cry is a metaphysical theatre embodying eternal archetypes with music and multilingual libretto by Miguel Azguime. Reflecting on the devastation of the Earth, on the barbarism of war, on the destruction of Nature, on the hegemonic power of the “market” and the consequent annihilation of cultures, on the loss of civilisational memory, he speculates and confronts us with the possible collapse of humanity but also with its eventual rebirth.
A Miso Ensemble /Miso Music Portugal project.
“A Laugh to Cry” pursues Miguel Azguime’s goal, as a composer, poet and performer, to grasp an ideal balance between language and music, to merge the language’s semantic and metaphorical components with its sonic values, in order to achieve his concept of “speech as music and music as speech”. “A Laugh to Cry” extends Miguel Azguime’s research on voice analysis, re-synthesis and processing, aiming at creating a dynamic continuum between timbre, harmony, rhythm and voice spectra.