Coproduction Venice Biennale - Koreja
Katër i Radës
the shipwreck
Katër i Radës is not just an opera of the memory. It’s an effort, though the music, to release the universe of human who went to meet one of the many tragedies in the Mediterranean: the one of a small Albanian boat overloaded with men, women and children, sank in March 1997 in front of the Italian coast. In the single act crowd the Drowned and the Saved, those who survived and those who died, their voices, their thoughts, and especially their journey to the dark, full of great anxieties and small wishes, dreams and fears, digressions, apparitions, sudden recollections.
Alessandro Leogrande
Nomination for the BEST MUSIC to Admir Shkurtaj on the occasion of the V Edition of the “The Masks of the Italian Theater” award (2015)
Special mention by Radio Sarajevo at the Mess International Theatre Festival 2016
music Admir Shkurtaj (1969) libretto Alessandro Leogrande (from the reportage Il naufragio, Feltrinelli 2011) direction Salvatore Tramacere music direction Admir Shkurtaj assistant direction Emanuela Pisicchio set and lights Michelangelo Campanale costumes Stefania Miscuglio set production Mario Daniele technicians Mario Daniele, Alessandro Cardinale soprano Simona Gubello soprano Flavja Matmuja experimental voice Stefano Luigi Mangia actress Emanuela Pisicchio actress Maria Rosaria Ponzetta actor Fabio Zullino flute, alto flute and piccolo Mariasole De Pascali
bass clarinet and Bb clarinet Marco Ignoti trumpet and live electronics Giorgio Distante
cello Jacopo Conoci piano Vanessa Sotgiu cupa cupe and percussions Pino Basile
polyphonic choir – traditional songs from Albania Nazo Çelaj, Nikolin Likaj, Meleq Çela, Sali Brahimaj, Valter Hodaj chamber opera commissioned by la Biennale di Venezia
premiere: 12th october 2014, 58th International Festival of Contemporary Music, Venice Biennale organization and tournée Laura Scorrano and Georgia Tramacere