FULL Nella mente imprevedibile di Mozart Sarzana 2006 Nino Machaidze, Lorenzo Arruga
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Nella mente imprevedibile di Mozart
- Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Libretto: various
- Venue & Opera Company: Teatro degli Impavidi, Sarzana, Italy
- Recorded: September 3, 2006
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers: Nino Machaidze
- Conductor:
- Orchestra:
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Archivio Lorenzo Arruga
- Date Published: 2023
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 3 Audio:3
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
The Mozart discourse, dear to Arruga, much in demand in Mozart’s year, is modulated to the expectations of the Festival in logical, composed, non-spectacular relaxation. Mozart’s creativity is not recognized in what we believe to be the shape of his piece, it must be sought by following his attention to mechanisms, people, gestures. Two opera directions (by Arruga) mounted on the respective symphonies serve as a memory aid to search for the secret motivations. The seductive duet of “Don Giovanni” is not entrusted to the beauty of an aria, it comes from further away, from voice and presence; the presentation of Tamino, the young hero of the “Magic Flute”, takes place through the acceptance of not making it, of his falling to the ground, welcoming the help of three women. For the live musical examples he has two young artists with him. The accordionist Oleg Vereshchagin, poet of the bajan, called to let us touch, through the Variations on the popular song “Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman”, with what unpredictable form Mozart’s creativity reaches the most pathetic and luminous moment.
Soprano Nino Machaidze, then newly perfected at the Accademia della Scala, was urgently grabbed upon her return from Istanbul, winner of the Leyla Gencer Competition, as the expected soprano suddenly fell ill, and brought a fragrant performance of the motet “Exsultate, jubilate”: Mozart’s sacred music, prayer and logic of freedom.
The previous day (2/9) Arruga and the two artists had done their utmost to meet the children in Piazza Capolicchio: “Mozart, the little genius;” wonderfully festive audience, ready to intuit, question Mozart, to mimic the variations with joyous complicity, as documented by the photographs added at the end of the film.
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