A COME ANTIGONE

Concept: In A COME ANTIGONE, the music is composed in conjunction with a personal dramaturgical reinterpretation of the myth, drawing from various characterizations of the protagonists found in several literary versions: Imene from Sophocles, Creante from Brecht, Emone from Anouilh, and Antigone from Maria Zambrano. The composer delves alongside Antigone into the underworld after her death, "which represents not only the underworld of the soul, but also of familial and social ties." This Antigone "is not the heroine canonized by tradition, but the solitary maiden, enveloped in silence and the absence of the gods. In the tomb where Antigone is buried alive, an imperceptible event unfolds, through which the fundamental meaning of her role as a mediator between love and knowledge begins to germinate.”

Orchestration: piano, double bass, clarinet, violin, cello and four voice actors

Duration: 8’20’’

Year: 2014

World premiére performance: Auditorium Parco della Musica Ennio Morricone, PMCE Ensemble (Tonino Battista conductor); 25/05/2014