Dos monólogos

• Year of composition: 2020-21

• Instrumentation: solo soprano

• Duration: 8' ca.

• Premiere: 7th April 2021 at Toni-Areal, Grosser Konzertsaal in Zurich (CH) by María Díaz Coca for the Wettbewerb für zeitgenössische Musik of the ZHdK

• Program notes:

Word and acting are at the center of these two monologues, in which theatricality represents the fulcrum of musical expression.

The first monologue, "Monólogo sobre García Lorca", refers to the famous poem Ciudad sin sueño and the drama of the text is expressed through the use of different vocal techniques: speech alternates with singing, labored breaths with heartbreaking high notes in a growing pathos that expresses painfully the meaning of the words.

On the contrary, irony reigns supreme in the second monologue: "A una nariz" takes up the text by poet Francisco de Quevedo, who lived in Spain between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The exuberance of the voice, combined with the use of two finger cymbals, outline a clear contrast compared to the first fragment: the sequence of the two in fact aims to explore the very wide range of human emotions through their main instrument.

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