The exclusive style of Stefano Poda can be explained by his outlook towards Opera: it is not a simple live entertainment, not a sentimental or political story-telling, not even a pure form of art, but a more-than-proportional sum of virtually any each human expression (music, painting, sculpture, fashion, design, poetry, philosophy, history,…). The fusion of such components is possible thanks to the most peculiar feature of opera: it is not spoken, it is sung. Differently from cinema and television, opera characters do not act in a contingent world, ruled by time-realistic correspondence to our life. By means of this powerful abstraction of music and singing, human emotions are not plainly depicted, but elevated to another level, far away from ours, a world similar to the dimension of dream and memory, where time is relative and irrational under the beat of music, not of reality. The never-ending duty of an opera director is hence reconstructing that mysterious and lost universe in a single look: the union of all forms of art becomes an endeavor to a perfectly consistent language. Free from concrete obligations of daily life, attempting to speak about everything without labelling anything, as music does.
Artists Stefano Poda
08 06 2019 19:00—21:00
Where Krizik E