06/01/2018
Fourteen musicians from different continents gather around Mozart's "Requiem". In a reconstruction of this requiem they combine their own musical influences such as jazz, opera and popular African music. The goal is to make this work of Western music something new to experience.
The composer Fabrizio Cassol, musical director of this project, continues his own artistic history, in which he has always brought together different musical cultures to work on a particular theme. Again and again he is looking for ways to write new stories with already existing works and with oral and written traditional traditions. In the case of the "requiem," he brings together musicians he has worked with (such as "Macbeth" and "Coup Fatal") with artists for whom this is his first collaborative work.
Director Alain Platel, together with the group, will seek a visual and physical theatrical translation of the images and associations that evoke the "requiem": from the funeral mass to the mass grave in which Mozart himself was buried.
Cassol and Platel meet in a kind of "métissage," a fusion of cultures, creating new universes. Their previous collaboration includes arrangements of Monteverdi's "Marienvesper" ("vsprs", 2006), Bach's St. Matthew Passion ("pitié!", 2008) and the Western Baroque repertoire ("Coup Fatal", 2014).
A production of les ballets C de la B, Festival de Marseille and Berliner Festspiele
In co-production with Opéra de Lille, Théâtre National de Chaillot Paris, Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Onassis Cultural Center Athens, Torino Dance, Kampnagel Hamburg, Ludwigsburg Castle Festival, Festspielhaus St. Poelten, L'Arsenal Metz, Scène Nationale du Sud-Aquitain - Bayonne, La Ville de Marseille
les ballets C de la B is supported by the Flemish Government, the City of Ghent, the Province of East Flanders, North Sea Port and Belgian Tax Shelter
Vierzehn Musiker von verschiedenen Kontinenten versammeln sich um Mozarts „Requiem“. In einer Rekonstruktion dieses Requiems verbinden sie ihre eigenen musikalischen Einflüsse wie Jazz, Oper und populärer afrikanischer Musik....