Adescamenti

  • Concert for Voices, Piano, Ondes Martenot or Flute, and Sound Machines
  • Music from Ardis I and Ardis II
  • Orchestration: Luigi de Angelis
  • Dramaturgy: Chiara Lagani
  • Piano: Matteo Ramon Arevalos
  • Ondes Martenot: Bruno Perrault
  • Flute: Filippo Mazzoli
  • Sound Machines: Mirto Baliani
  • Voices: Paola Baldini, Marco Cavalcoli, Chiara Lagani, Sara Masotti, Francesca Mazza
  • Production: Fanny & Alexander, Ravenna Festival
  • Excerpts from Vladimir Nabokov’s works reproduced with permission from The Vladimir Nabokov Estate, in the Italian translation by Margherita Crepax.

Adescamenti is a project originally conceived in two parts for the Ravenna Festival. During the two-day Botteghe del Teatro event in the 2004 edition, festival audiences experienced a workshop during the day and a concert in the evening. The workshop and the concert are independent yet form a collective invitation to delve into Nabokov’s work from a different perspective.

Adescamenti also creates a network of suggestive sensory responses, involving varying intensities, themes, and targets. At its core lies the intricate relationship between literature, theater, and music, offering a complex, synesthetic experience for the audience. Spectators become part of a universe of scattered clues—a path to reconstruct, much like the breadcrumbs in the fairy tale of Hansel and Gretel. These are the hooks, lures, and enticements of Ada.

Year : 2004

THE CONCERT

The concert’s repertoire consists of stage music from the performances Ardis I and Ardis II. This musical journey was developed over two years as part of the Ada, A Family Chronicle project. The pieces are transcriptions or adaptations of 20th-century works, intricately woven with the play’s textual composition. In this concert, the actor’s voice is treated as a musical instrument, on par with the piano, ondes Martenot, and sound machines.

The concert is also performed in a version featuring piano and flute, capturing the original tonal qualities of the pieces, which in Ardis I and Ardis II are otherwise adapted for the ondes Martenot.

PAST DATES

For Piano and Ondes Martenot:

  • June 22, 23, 2004: Ravenna, Ravenna Festival – Le Botteghe del Teatro, Ardis Hall
  • February 2, 3, 2005: Bologna, University of Bologna – La Soffitta, DMS Workshops – Theater
    In collaboration with Arena del Sole – Nuova Scena – Teatro Stabile di Bologna

For Piano and Flute:

  • July 2, 3, 2005: Gambettola (Forlì-Cesena), International Theatre Festival Santarcangelo dei Teatri, Fabbrica, Sala dei Filtri
  • July 29, 2005: Verona, Estate Teatrale Veronese, Chiostro Conservatorio dall’Abaco
  • August 27, 2005: Savona, Prototipo Priamar – Festival dei Laboratori Teatrali, Après la nuit Cultural Association, Fortezza Monumentale del Priamar
  • September 9, 2005: Mantua, Festivaletteratura 2005, Teatro Bibiena
  • April 22, 2006: Montefano (Macerata), Teatro La Rondinella
  • June 25, 26, 2006: Turin, Festival delle Colline Torinesi, Castello di Rivoli – Museum of Contemporary Art
  • July 3, 2007: Bologna, Atti Sonori, Museum of Music, Perséphone Cultural Association