Spagnolo, Simone (2014) Even you, lights, cannot hear me (Published Score). [Arts Related non-text Outputs]

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Abstract

Exploring a futuristic and elegiac vision of the end of time, Even you, lights, cannot hear me is an operatic
spectacle based on a monologue from Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull. Two singers, depicted as two beings
embodied into one entity, wander a surreal, yet exquisite cosmos, in which nothingness and wholeness coexist,
timelessly.
This work originally arises from the wish to give a whole new life to Chekhov’s powerful writing, whilst
challenging the contemporary notion of opera and music-theatr. Somehow, Even you, lights, cannot hear me can
be described as a performance-art piece, a chamber opera, an experimental piece of music theatre, or - as the
subtitle indicates - a musico-theatrical metonymy. It is a work that sits across interdisciplinary boundaries.
Set in an imaginary outer space, the two singers-pianists sit on a rotating stool, back to back, like a two-headed
creature that sings, acts and plays. The music solely articulate notes from the harmonic series, which gradually
travel through all twelve keys. Eventually, whilst the twelves overtones series ultimately superimpose each other,
the two-headed entity separates and dissolves, offering the listener/viewer a glimpse of life after the world’s end.
Even you, lights, cannot hear me's English text is translated by Dimitry Devdari

Item Type:	Arts Related non-text Outputs
Subjects:	Music > Composition Music
Related URLs:	Publisher
Depositing User:	Ms Florence Smith
Date Deposited:	30 Jan 2025 13:57
Last Modified:	30 Jan 2025 15:34
URI:	https://repository.uwl.ac.uk/id/eprint/13193

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