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Entering the world of the 29th Music Biennale Zagreb was exciting, new and fairytale-like. Excellent artistic combination – a collaboration between the young, but artistically expressive composer Sara Glojnarić, and the director Rene Medvešek – was accompanied by the ensemble consisting of great musicians from different music constellations, along with the resident ensemble of the Zagreb Puppet Theatre. Come, hear and see this energetic fairytale Frog the Queen at repeat performances on Sunday for the 11 am or 6 pm. “Although it did not appear so, the prince's hearing took him impeccably the right way, and he, bless him and his kingdom, completely surrendered himself to the guidance of that too often neglected sense, just as we should do following his example. Let us, therefore, listen well to what the legend says: do not turn a deaf ear – listen well and trust your hearing.” —Rene Medvešek, director The opportunity to open this year's Biennale with a premiere of a new opera was given to the composer Martyna Kosecka, whose excellent 5-minute opera won the previous 5 Minute Opera Competition. This young Polish composer and conductor, residing in Iran, is herself the artistic director of a contemporary music festival in Tehran. As a textual starting point and an inspiration for the opera Klothó she chose fairytales, legends and fables. The adventure of composing a large form, writing the libretto in a foreign language and working with a large number of artists and collaborators on two different locations reached its peak at the Zagreb premiere to be followed by performances at the Croatian National Theatre Ivan pl. Zajc in Rijeka. “We hope that the audience will share their interpretations among themselves as we were doing while working on this opera. What does this myth, figure, noise or silence mean to you? How does it relate to other symbols, impressions and feelings?” —Krzysztof Cicheński, director “(In the heart of my composing…) increasing importance is given to sonorities of non-academic derivation and to the dirty, violent sound of a prevalently metallic origin coming from rock and techno music.” —Fausto Romitelli Prominent Italian composer Fausto Romitelli was an indispensable part of the Italian music scene and culture. As a student of Franco Donatoni and later on a collaborator of the French spectralist ensemble L’Itinéraire, Romitelli tore down the barrier between art music and popular music. Distortion, saturation, and psychedelic rock were part of his musical universe; blended distorted colorations of acoustic and electric instruments as well as accessories such as harmonica create a hallucinatory atmosphere. In his last piece, An Index of Metals, Romitelli worked across a variety of media to create their unexpected but powerful syntheses, and left us with a musically and visually impressive work. It is an inspiring merge of theatrical, instrumental and electronic elements that requires complete immersion of both the artists and technical collaborators on the project. The forerunners of the Croatian contemporary music performances, the members of the Cantus Ensemble (formed 15 years ago as a Biennale's project), led by guest conductor Adriano Martinolli, presented the MBZ performance of Romitelli's Index at the heart of the city, the Zagreb Youth Theatre. The first festival day will undoubtedly leave a long-lasting echo, paving a way for other great artists and art projects we have in store for the coming week!
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Ulazak u svijet 29. muzičkog biennala Zagreb bio je uzbudljiv, nov i bajkovit. Sjajnu umjetničku kombinaciju, suradnju mlade, ali umjetnički izražajne skladateljice Sare Glojnarić i redatelja Renea Medvešeka, pratio je ansambl koji čine sjajni glazbenici okupljeni iz različitih glazbeničkih konstelacija, uz rezidencijalni lutkarski ansambl Zagrebačkog kazališta lutaka. Energičnu bajkovitu priču pogledajte i poslušajte i u nedjelju, kad slijede još dvije izvedbe: u 11 te u 18 sati. Priliku da praizvedbom svoje opere svečano otvori ovogodišnji Biennale izvrsnom petominutnom operom na proteklom 5 Minute Opera Competition zavrijedila je skladateljica Martyna Kosecka. Mlada poljska skladateljica i dirigentica s iranskom adresom, i sama organizira festival suvremene glazbe u Teheranu, a za operu Klothó tekstualni predložak i inspiracija bile su bajke, legende i basne. Pustolovina skladanja velike forme, pisanja libreta na stranome jeziku te rada s velikim brojem umjetnika i suradnika na čak dvije lokacije, svoj vrhunac ima u zagrebačkoj praizvedbi, nakon koje slijede izvedbe u HNK-u Ivana pl. Zajca u Rijeci. „Nadamo se da će publika među sobom dijeliti svoje interpretacije jednako kao što smo to mi činili tijekom rada na ovoj operi. Što ovaj mit,lik, zvuk ili tišina znače tebi? Na koji ih način veže s drugim simbolima, impresijama i osjećanjima?“ — Krzysztof Cicheński, redatelj Istaknuti talijanski skladatelj Fausto Romitelli bio je neprocjenjivo vrijedan dio talijanske glazbene scene i kulture uopće. Student Franca Donatonija te, nešto kasnije, suradnik francuskih spektralista okupljenih u ansambl L’Itinéraire, Romitelli je srušio granice između umjetničke i popularne glazbe. Distorzija, zasićeni slog te elementi psihodeličnog rocka bili su dijelom njegova glazbenog svijeta; stopljene izobličene boje akustičkih i električnih instrumenata, kao i dodaci poput usne harmonike i sl. stvaraju atmosferu halucinacije. U svom posljednjem djelu, An Index of Metals, Romitelli je rabio niz različitih medija kako bi dobio neočekivan i moćan zvučni spoj, a za sobom je ostavio glazbeno i vizualno impresivno djelo. Riječ je o nadahnutom spoju kazališnih, instrumentalnih i elektroničkih elemenata koji iziskuje potpuno uranjanje i glazbenika i tehničkih suradnika. Za biennalsku izvedbu Romitellijeva Indexa, predvodnici hrvatske suvremeno-glazbene scene, članovi Cantus Ansambla, osnovanog upravo u sklopu MBZ-a prije 15 godina, nastupiti su pod ravnanjem gostujućeg dirigenta Adriana Martinollija, u srcu grada, Zagrebačkom kazalištu mladih. Bez sumnje, prvi je festivalski dan ostavio snažan odzvuk i otvorio vrata nizu vrsnih umjetnika i projekata koje vam predstavljamo u nadolazećem tjednu!