Esta obra traz-nos a história de uma gota de água, e do ciclo da água. O libreto, também da autoria de Miguel Azguime, é inspirado em Papiniano Carlos. Paula Azguime, o outro elemento do Miso Ensemble, foi responsável pela conceptualização e encenação do projecto, bem como pela elaboração do vídeo. Para mais informações será de ler o texto que acompanha o vídeo e tomamos a liberdade de reproduzir a seguir:
THE LITTLE WATER DROP GIRL is about water cycle indispensable for human life on Earth. It tells a story of a water drop, which leaves the sea, evaporates, travels with the wind along with other million water drops, which are transformed into rain, give life to flowers and food to people, which descend to the ground, arouse in a fountain, in a water trickle, in a stream, turning into a river and going back to the sea.
The opera’s setting is concomitantly built upon infantile visual imagery through real and digital images. The drawings, the videos, the representations and its transformations, hand in hand with movements/choreography of the choir contribute to the perception and fruition both of the music and the story. The music, sung by children, joins spoken and singing voices, real-time sound transformations of voice as well as nature and electronic sounds diffused in space.
MIGUEL AZGUIME composition & libretto on original text by Papiniano Carlos
PAULA AZGUIME concept; staging, video & sound projection
ERICA MANDILLO conductor & choir staging
ÁGATA MANDILLO narrator (for Portuguese, English, Italian & French)
LISBON UNIVERSITY CHILDREN’S CHOIR with CAMILA ROBERT as the Little Water Drop Girl
Drawings from the Ateliers and Preparatory Choir of the Lisbon University
ANDRÉ PERROTTA technical direction & software development
PERSEU MANDILLO film & image processing
SARA JANIC costumes
VIOLETA BARRADAS & JAKUB SZCZYPA monitors
JOSÉ GROSSINHO musical assistant
MISO ENSEMBLE NEW OP-ERA project
MISO STUDIO multichannel diffusion system
MISO MUSIC PORTUGAL production
Commissioner: ECOMUSEU MUNICIPAL DO SEIXAL
Co-production of the première: CÂMARA MUNICIPAL DE LISBOA / EGEAC
Partnership: CITAR UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA PORTUGUESA
Support: FUNDAÇÃO PARA A CIÊNCIA E A TECNOLOGIA
Special acknowledgement to PAPINIANO CARLOS’ FAMILY
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