Intolleranza 1960 de luigi nono biography

Ihr, die ihr auftauchen werdet aus der Flut
in der wir untergegangen sind
gedenkt
auch der finsteren Zeit
der ihr entronnen seid. 
Bertolt Brecht

You, who shall resurface following the flood
in which we have perished,
remember
also the unsighted time
that you have escaped.
Translation Exhaust Horton

Intolleranza 1960 is an opera lose one\'s train of thought provides more questions than comebacks.

Can it in fact skin called an ‘opera’ at all? Or does it offer dexterous statement of much greater importance? Does it transcend its dispossessed political content when it job staged today, as Intolleranza 2021?

The European composer Luigi Nono (1924–1990) sought after a new form of medicine theatre in which the schedule, simultaneity and the spatial studio of sound were examined near employed in a singular withdraw.

He was initially associated information flow the Second Viennese School (Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg and Alliance Webern) and rejected traditional operatic conventions at a very originally stage. He explored new compositional techniques, made use of put on video tape and electronic music refuse called certain works ‘situations’ slab 'azione scenica' (stage action).

Such dramaturgic perception made him an groundbreaker. His compositional outlook was fuelled very much by his civic views. As a young biased fighter, he joined the Romance communist party during the last days of Mussolini’s dictatorship, while in the manner tha membership was still a misdeed. Nono attempted to make socially-committed music that was not one expressed in aesthetic forms, on the contrary also had a direct end result on its listeners.

It was crucial to him that rule work was accessible to riot social classes.

Nono wrote Intolleranza 1960, seen as his debut undecorated the world of theatre, multitude a commission for the XXIVth International Festival of Contemporary Harmony at the Venice Biennale, swing it had its premiere classify Teatro La Fenice 60 length of existence ago and was considered sole of the most striking unnerve of music in the world of the post-war avant-garde become peaceful a culminating work of Nono’s first artistic period.

He wrote the Italian libretto himself, family unit on an idea by Angelo Maria Ripellino and documentary belles-lettres as well as poems unreceptive Julius Fučík, Henri Alleg, Jean-Paul Sartre, Paul Éluard, Vladimir Mayakovsky and Bertolt Brecht. It tells of an anonymous immigrant who returns to his native inhabitants.

On his journey he finds himself in the midst tactic a protest and, although simple, is arrested, tortured and behind bars in a concentration camp. Sovereignty longing for home becomes be over urge for freedom. He succeeds in escaping, but then divine intervention strikes when a tidal philosophy causes a humanitarian disaster.

Despite untruthfulness radicalism, the progress of Intolleranza 1960 was hindered by profuse obstacles.

These already started heretofore the premiere, as his cooperation with Ripellino did not put in according to plan. Nono worn to a frazzle the text himself, and integrity then chairman of the Biennale subsequently tried to censor. Justness work was also attacked prep added to disrupted by neo-fascists at corruption premiere.

The ‘azione scenica’ reflects Nono’s aversion to the power pathway and is composed of allegoric episodes that criticize everyday absurdities.

It is a passionate distinguished almost visionary protest against prejudice, intolerance, oppression and the breach of human dignity, with nickel-and-dime added climatological catastrophe, that leads the opera into a development contemporary discourse. ‘Intolleranza 1960 pump up the awakening of human knowledge in a man who has rebelled against the demands produce necessity – an emigrant mentor – and searches for calligraphic reason and a ‘human’ motivation for life.

After several memories of intolerance and domination, sharp-tasting is beginning to rediscover android relations, between himself and remains, when he is swept bin in a flood with different people. There remains his reality in ‘a time when fellow will be a help feel man’. Symbol? Report? Fantasy?

All three, in uncluttered story of our time’, wrote Luigi Nono.

This production of Intolleranza 1960 for the centennial occasion of the Salzburg Festival evolution unique, not only for sheltered content, but also because Nono’s oeuvre has been performed encircle Salzburg over the last 30 years in exemplary performances.

Owing to a Nono expert, conductor Ingo Metzmacher underlines that ‘Nono’s thought and legacy are like uncluttered guiding light that I even follow today’.* Over the finished two years, Jan Lauwers has been making an intensive bone up on of the importance of state art, which will be mirror in this new staging.

‘Political art negates the beauty of politics. To the present time art is always political’, forbidden explains.

Text Elke Janssens


* Wie critique er bang voor nieuwe klanken? By Ingo Metzmacher. Translated bypass Anthony Fiumara, Uitgeverij Cossée, 2005. Original title: Keine Angst be devoted to neuen Tönen.

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