“Pierrot Lunaire” by Arnold Schönberg
dissonArt ensemble
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Full price: 18 €
Reduced & Small groups (5-9 people): 10 €
Large groups (10+ people): 9 €
Unemployed, People with disabilities: 5 €
Companions: 10 €
Introduction
Arnold Schoenberg’s most famous work and a touchstone of musical modernism, “Pierrot Lunaire” has been turned into music theatre production by the combined forces of the dissonArt ensemble, composer Dimitris Maronidis and director Alexandros Efklidis.
Photo: Yiannis Soulis
“Pierrot Lunaire” (1912), the first atonal masterpiece from the father of the twelve-tone technique, Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951), is transformed here into a piece of music theatre. The vocally demanding role of Pierrot is performed by Frauke Aulbert, a singer the international Press has dubbed the “Queen of avant-garde”.
On a set inspired by Man’s efforts to commune with the universe, musicians and stage performers execute minor rituals which they hope will bring them closer to the unknown to which they aspire. Making use of the innate theatricality of the 21 poems by Albert Giraud which Schoenberg set to music, the production brings together Schoenberg’s historic avant-garde, contemporary psychoacoustics, the moon-dreams of the post-Romantic Pierrot, and the bleakness of the world after the conquest of the Moon.
The production is directed by Alexandros Efklidis, an artist with a distinct aesthetic and significant achievements to his name in the sphere of music theatre: “In the original, the musings of the moon-struck Pierrot provide the pretext for an on-stage parable revolving around the concept of the avant-garde and the rhetoric of the end with which the avant-garde is always closely linked”.
The dissonArt ensemble is one of the leading contemporary music groups in Greece. Based in Thessaloniki, its members travel freely around Europe to wherever the heart of the new music beats.
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Photo: Yiannis Soulis
Saturday 2 April
After concert talk with dissonArt ensemble
Moderated by Christos Carras, General Director and Artistic Director of Music at the Onassis Stegi
Sunday 3 April | 12:00-14:00
Workshop with dissonArt ensemble | Reading session for new works
The dissonArt ensemble invites young composers to bring new works in order to provide them with the opportunity to perform their works for the first time.
The workshop is aimed exclusively at young composers (born since 1980), who are invited to bring works with them for the dissonArt ensemble to sight-read. The workshop seeks to acquaint the ensemble with young composers and new repertoire and to provide them with the opportunity to perform the composers’ works for the first time.
- The works do not have to be finished and can be for any combination of the following instruments: flute (or piccolo), clarinet (or bass clarinet), violin, cello and piano
- The time allotted for reading, discussing and studying each work will depend on the number of participants
Reservation: education@onassis.org
Sunday 3 April | 18:30
On Sunday 3 April at 18:30 documentary screening “Interpreting Pierrot Lunaire” directed by Stéphane Gatti, with Greek subtitles and free entrance
The screening will be introduced by Jean Paul Olive, professor of musicology at the University Paris 8 and curator of the series. The talk will be in French with simultaneous translation.
Αrtwork: beetroot
