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Letture tra affabulazione e canto
In the beginning was the Lord, soloist of creation, who set the universe to music and with his remaining breath animated man.
Zephyrus copied its hissing in vain, but only the human whistle would be the truthful imitation of the divine breath.
Valentino Zeichen
The whistle is a sound, neither song nor instrument, unusual in music, a mysterious sound. It is like playing with your mouth closed, in secret. It is a strange sound, always hovering between a pure note and a shrill one. The whistle cannot be set like the voice; in him is the soul of the person, unfiltered. Of all sounds it is the most human, the least infallible. In the East, birdsong is the voice of the soul, and birds are the medium through which the soul is reunited to God: the performance brings to the stage a dialogue between the human voice of Iaia Forte and that of the birds-soul, through the melodic whistle of Elena Somarè, accompanied by musician Lincoln Almada.
Director Maddalena Maggi has compiled a number of texts from various literature to create a bestiary dedicated to the winged beings that dot the literary works, poems and essays of the most diverse cultures and eras; from Mansfield to Cantarelli, via La Capria, Trilussa and Loria. An Imaginary Volary, a mixture of anecdotes, tales and poems that partly make you laugh, partly move you, and partly make you doubt the line between truth and legend.
It is a journey through the symbols, myths and legends evoked from these creatures. Under arm to the word and tales is music and melodic whistling, to make sure that the stories have their own soundtrack played live. Three characters on stage, united by the common thread of lyric storytelling.
direction and dramaturgy Maddalena Maggi
with
**Iaia Forte **narrator's voice
**Elena Somarè **melodic whistle.
Lincoln Almada Paraguayan harp / percussion
images Giovanni Frangi
production** Skydancers for HDRÀ**
She began her working career as an actress with Peter del Monte and Marco Bellocchio soon after graduating from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, going on to play from leading roles with directors such as Salvatore Piscicelli, Stefano Incerti, Lucio Pellegrini, Alex Infascelli and Francois Girard. In 2006 her interests turned toward directing and classical music. Moved to Paris she undertakes a formative collaboration as assistant director inopera opera. Back in Italy, she continues her work with Gabriele Lavia as assistant director. In 2013 she joined the EMMA FOR PEACE Association as a project manager. In the last three years she has curated a cultural review for the Spoleto Festival with Paolo Mieli. In 2016 he signed the direction of Histoire du soldat by Igor Stravinsky, with Iaia Forte and the Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio, produced by the Teatro Nazionale della Toscana.
Born to Naples, a graduate of the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, she made her theater debut with Toni Servillo, and collaborated to long with the "Teatri Uniti" group. Also in theater, she has worked with Leo De Bernardinis, Mario Martone, Carlo Cecchi, Federico Tiezzi, Valerio Binasco, Emma Dante, Alfonso Santagata, and Luca Ronconi, participating to in some of the most critically acclaimed shows of recent years. She won the Critics' Award as best actress for_ Il Misantropo_ directed by T. Servillo, the Fiorino Doro of the Dante Society. She made her big screen debut with Libera by Pappi Corsicato, with whom she also starred in_ I buchi neri_, I Vesuviani, Chimera, Il volto di un'altra. Also in cinema, she has worked with M. Nichetti, M. Ferreri, T. De Bernardi, M. Martone, R. De Maria, M. Risi, E. Cappuccio, and Peter Greenaway, obtaining two Nastri d'Argento, two David nominations, a Golden Globe, a Ciak d'Oro, the Agis Award, the Linea d'Ombra, and a Sacher Award as best leading actress. In 2013 she shot P. Sorrentino's new film La grande bellezza, V. Golino's directorial debut Miele, and R. De Maria's La vita oscena. In 2014 he shot with G. Manfredonia Terra Madre and with M. Martone Il giovane favoloso and for television a miniseries in two episodes entitled_ Sottocopertura_ directed by Giulio Manfredonia. In 2015, for cinema, she starred in Ho ucciso Napoleone, directed by Giorgia Farina, and for theater, she starred in Hanno tutti ragione from the novel by P. Sorrentino. For TV, in 2016, she is in the cast of_ Squadra Antimafia 8_ directed by R. De Maria and S. Zarmandili.** **
A multimedia artist, she is one of the rarest and best-known performers, internationally, in the field of whistle music. In her artistic career, she has been able to take this particular instrument to the highest levels of interpretation, freeing it from the prejudice that saw it confined to pure virtuoso performance. Recognition has been bestowed on her by its reception at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan, the Reial Cercle Artistic in Barcelona, the Auditorium Parco della Musica, the Teatro Sistina in Rome and many other prestigious theaters and venues. In 2011, under the patronage of the Municipality of Rome, in the splendid Casina di Raffaello, inside to Villa Borghese, "Il fischio magico" (The Magic Whistle) was inaugurated, a large multimedia solo exhibition for which he made his first compact disc whose songs form the background music of the photographic exhibition and videos. In the same year, at the Ministry of Culture, in the ancient Jesuit library "Sala della Crociera," he inaugurated the 13th Culture Week, with a personal anthological exhibition and a concert for Whistle Tiorba and Harp. In 2013 for "I concerti di Palazzo Mezzabarba" he performs in the Council Chamber of Pavia City Hall with a concert for whistle and Renaissance harp. Twice he opened the Capalbio Libri Festival with concerts for whistle and harp. In May 2016 he released his second record entitled "Incanto," dedicated to great Italian melody.