By questioning ourselves in these columns on the musical theater, we have more than once concluded that, if it was a question of remaking opera in miniature, the interest was limited.
With the creation at the Athénée de
Dafne
, the Austrian composer Wolfgang Mitterer shows that it is possible to imagine a resolutely singular artistic object, capable of inventing its own codes.
It's rare enough to be greeted enthusiastically!
What is it exactly?
Music historians have always been frustrated by the disappearance in the fire of the Dresden library in 1730 of the score of
Dafne
, the first German opera composed in 1627 by Heinrich Schütz.
Founder of the choir Les Cris de Paris, Geoffroy Jourdain convinced the Austrian composer Wolfgang Mitterer, born in 1958 and who has already proven himself as a master of musical dramaturgy, to imagine a
Dafne
of today, which does not neither a reconstitution nor a weaving of quotations, but a work apart…
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