FLATS ARE BLUE

Musical Theatricalization
Music by Claude Debussy
Texts by W. Shakespeare, T.S. Eliot

Featuring
Matteo Bevilacqua, Luca Trabucco – piano
Giuseppe Bevilacqua – voice
Alice Violin – stand-in

Claude Debussy’s musical writing finds a privileged place on the theatrical stage, where the “utopia of sound” that characterizes its profound essence can emerge. The stage machinery is not used here to evoke the pictorial mood of the time but, thanks to its conventions and equipment (lights, curtains, wings, backdrops), it introduces the audience into a limbo suspended in time and lost in space. The spectator, seated on the stage and facing the auditorium, experiences a sense of estrangement concerning space, time, and light, accompanied by the notes of Debussy’s preludes and recitations from Shakespeare’s Henry IV and Eliot’s Four Quartets.