A talking evening with Rolando on the stage of Volksoper Vienna. A richest experience full of emotional and very human moments, with the most interesting details about staging, singing, professional life, artistic career, One-man show at its best Conversation with Rolando on the stage of Volksoper Vienna Rolandos words and thoughts are always interesting, and especially in these days when everyone expects his ‘Viva la Mamma’. He talked about his stagings in Lyon and Baden-Baden, offering new and unknown details about the different difficulties in this work, about his intention to build a new world around the music, to find a new visual language, about the initial chaos in the first days of the staging and about the several weeks hard work. A very interesting thought: after a long period of work, it comes the moment when the staging no longer belongs to the stage director, but to the singers who add to the idea of the director their own personality, their own individuality. He talked about clowns, their philosophy, logic, vision of the world, about their intention to make questions, to find different answers and to offer new solutions. Rolando recounted how he had met Emmanuelle Haïm, got acquainted with Monteverdis music, how he wants to demolish boxes prescribed for the different voices. He talked about his acquaintance with Nola Rae, about Raes workshops, and about his meeting with Mozart, the man and the composer. Rolando offered us a lot of deeply emotional and profoundly touching moments when he talked about: - the arrogance of the singer to sing Verdi, Puccini and others composers, - the mission of the singer to not only sing the notes, but to give them life and blood, - the fame: to be famous is not the goal of the artist, it is a consequence of work, the goal is to be the best artist, to give everything to the audience. I particularly liked his analysis of the professional career and the artistic career. The first year of the career decide whether an artist will be professional one or he will remain amateur. The first years are devoted to build the professional career, but after this period, the artist must devote himself uniquely to the art, develop always his art, find his own way and give more and more to the audience. The conversation was accompanied by video excerpts from Lelisir damore (Vienna, 2005), La traviata (Salzburg, 2005), Tonight (Waldbühne Konzert, 2006) and an audio excerpt from Monteverdi CD (2005). At the end, Rolando thanked the artists of Volksoper for their enthusiasm, love and work. ¡GRACIAS, ROLANDO!
Posted on: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 07:26:17 +0000
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