Venetian journal/Satyricon
Intro
Venetian journal/Satyricon
Bruno Maderna
From 15/06/2004 in Ghent - from 30/06/2004 in Antwerp
- Musical direction: Luca Pfaff
- Director: Georges Lavaudant
- Boswell: Nigel Robson
- Majordomus: Rodney Rajesh Kappar
- Trimalchio: Johannes Chum
- Fortunata: Sally Burgess
In his novel Satyricon, Petronius paints a merciless picture of the parvenus that swarmed around Emperor Nero. Bruno Maderna, the late godfather of the Italian avant-garde, took the ‘Banquet of Trimalchio’, the best-known fragment from this novel, as the source for his opera: a magnificent panorama of avarice, megalomania and human stupidity. He gave the orgy described in detail by Petronius an inventive and colourful score, studded with quotations from many sources, ranging from Gregorian chant to musical.
Practical
Surtitles: Dutch.
Team
- Musical direction
- Director
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Set design
Nicky Rieti
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Costumes
Jean-Pierre Vergier
- Lightning
- Boswell
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Majordomus
Rodney Rajesh Kappar
- Trimalchio
- Fortunata
- Habinnas
- Quartilla
- Eumolpus
- Criside
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