Opera Night Without Heart- debuted on Valentine's Day and remain in the Steam Factory scene until Saturday, February 24. The last evening there will be a big party for night owls Dionysian doc, with DJ, videos, food, drinks and the chance to dance. Girls Theatre Company Dionisi are smart, have gained strong links with Milan and its territory. Almost all graduated from Paolo Grassi, after years of experience of the theater has hosted the Filodrammatici the Steam Factory, changed requirements for construction of their choice. They are all between 25 and 35 years and I have talked to Valeria Talenti, the director and Renata Ciaravino, author of the text. Alessandra Maculan, organizational direction, he offered other details and I met with four musicians: Maximum Betti on guitar, keyboards and sax Donato Alfa Romeo, Elvio Longato Sagone Julius on drums and bass.
What is 'Opera Night'?
(Valeria) Come see music and theater, as in Brecht's Threepenny Opera. Ours is not background music but it is essential. Brecht said that "the music gets the party" when it becomes critical.
What would you like to express this 'underground journey into the night in search of new emotions', as the subtitle?
(Renata) 's like the desire for a flight to find out what night, but without a precise look like looking down. To see what happens in Milan. Since I started writing, the story is passed from the folk of the night in a gray area, then the merger between the two.
What does this mean?
(Renata) I want to say that darkness falls at night and my shame is hidden. I feel protected to say than I dare to say that day. Thus were born the characters that tell the public directly, their confessions. Using music, which is as effective as the night, it gives me a sensory support to say what I feel.
What is the plot?
(Renata) There are six real characters in my story: a couple of friends who live in the suburbs, in a neighborhood like Baggio, where we did the tests and we have really absorbed the ways of saying and doing a lot of guys who live there. Then there's maybe a couple living together for 30 years but the two have yet to talk seriously. And there's a girl who wants to be able to participate in a quiz televisivo.
E il sesto personaggio?
(Renata) E’ il Corifeo, il capo coro. E’ l’ultimo personaggio, la voce dell’anima di tutti, dei protagonisti come dei musicisti e della notte. Il Corifeo è un tentativo di esprimere un contraltare poetico alla crudezza dei concetti espressi.
I musicisti hanno lavorato sui testi o i testi si sono ispirati alle musiche?
(Renata) Nessuno ha mai avuto un copione scritto perché di giorno in giorno cambiavamo il montaggio o altro. Ognuno ha collaborato senza metodo di relazione. Mentre scrivevo il testo, io ho ascoltato tantissima musica per i fatti miei e i musicisti sono stati abbastanza liberi da offrire ideas, which have sometimes caused changes in the text and vice versa.
(Massimo Betti, guitarist) We worked with the script or talking to us, tell us about the atmosphere to be created. We made up three blocks relating to particular characters, Corifeo, at night and themes written by us, designed as a cover: there's 'La Notte' of Adam, there are two pieces of Radiohead, is Neil Sedaka. But there is a real score, we are changing again. Some songs come from memory, songs that maybe our parents listened to when we were young: music is unsettled.
How did you create the staging?
(Valeria) There is a part of the stage that moves toward the audience, the stories do not follow a plot but chase each other, as were over in the shaker of a bartender. I think it's a show a bit 'circus and a bit' Greek tragedy.
Is not it curious that you speak of tragedy with 'The night is young' of the twins Kessler?
(Renata) As we move into the area tragic, I wanted to lighten and make fun of with songs like this, to avoid falling into the tragic and freeze the enjoyment of the show from the audience. Who we are, I think so overwhelmed by the real tragedies that it seems difficult to touch points of no return with the news. You see, to speak of Oedipus kills his father and if the mother does leave us indifferent, and current things but not bring us to escape from tragedy, but bestow the tragicomedy. Giving space, including music, to feel a pinch of irony. But the context remains dramatic.
Finally, what is Opera Night?
(Renata) the use of visual color, use of bodies that may be dreaming, circus, grotesque ... But the catering save us! Rather than anything, we have to eat and drink, and we cook pretty well. There will be no tables but in the Steam Factory there are no chairs and everyone gets by. The complaint existential for me is when we say that can not do it anymore. Talk about being human is to know in 2007 that a man suffers to live in this context. I used a raw language, not because I like the dirty words, but today the guys talk like that and wanted to get to the truth in a dry, empty words and useless.
(Valeria) The two boys in the suburbs, and Pirate Currency, representing the couple and talk together but they are just friends. The real pair, consisting of a man and a woman, you touch each other but there is no dialogue, only speak to the public. We tried to tell the authenticity, without prudery. Remember that in cities there are feelings and should be taught in schools what is the affection, love, not only the civic sense. If no one teaches you to have a heart, must be able to tell time in sorrow, before you start the offense.
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