Pasticcio alla napolitana : update of an old practice
Responsable(s)
Équipe
Partenaires
Max Coslov, Fondation Edmond J. Safra
Marcelo Ramalho, Brazilian Embassy in the Vatican
Susan Kleebank, Consulate General of Brazil in Geneva
Daniel Birouste, Manufacture d’orgue de Plaisance du Gers
Date de début: 2020
Présentation du projet
In the last three decades, a large-scale work, conducted on the repertoire of the eunuchs by musicians and musicologists, has thus far concerned itself with famous composers. Rather than working on the basis of complete oeuvres, this project has chosen to explore the paths of pasticcio, a common practice in opera in the 18th century, which involved mixing parts of different works and also different composers in order to tell a completely different story and create a new work. In this creative procedure, everything was permissible; adaptation of the text or modification of the music.
The goal of this project is to create an unprecedented pasticcio based on fragments of little-known works composed by musicians from the Neapolitan School (Carlo Pallavicino, Domenico Gabrielli, Giuseppe Vignola and Giuseppe Maria Orlandini, among others). The work will involve an historical study of the sources, the writing of the pasticcio (libretto, musical adaptation, recompiling of the vocal parts, instrumentation), and some work in the workshop with the instrumentalists and singers in order to check the hypotheses identified during the research work.
This project, designed to take place in two phases, will enable a collaboration between several artistic domains (music, theatre, literature), several countries (Austria, Brazil, France, Italy, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland and the Vatican) and an inter-departmental collaboration at the Haute École de Musique de Genève.
Closing concert (scheduled for 4 December 2022 at the Temple de Carouge in Geneva): "Estro Armonico", by the HEM-DMA, violin and conducting by Florence Malgoire.
