Soprano Adriane Queiroz gives voice to the unconscious in Schoenberg’s work

The Brazilian performs with the Municipal Symphony Orchestra directed by the conductor Alessandro Sangiorgi

Anguish, fear, hope. The song lasts just over half an hour. But Erwartung, by Arnold Schoenberg, is a tortuous and intense journey through the unconscious. “The whole text unfolds in a lapse of thought,” says soprano Adriane Queiroz. “Everything comes from a void that soon becomes an unrecognizable forest, a nature that cannot be controlled.”

Queiroz, soprano from Pará based in Germany, where she is part of the permanent cast of the Berlin State Opera, sings the opera at the Municipal Theater of Sao Paulo this Friday 8 and Saturday 9, accompanied by the Municipal Symphony Orchestra conducted by the conductor Alessandro Sangiorgi. The program also has solar Symphony n. 4, Italianby the composer Felix Mendelssohn – in other words, a concert made of profound contrasts.

Erwartung can be translated as Expectation. Schoenberg called it a monodrama and wrote it in 1909 from the poem by Marie Pappenheim, a Viennese doctor specializing in dermatology, but with a declared interest in psychiatry. In your text, a woman walks through the forest. She at one point she runs into a corpse. She is your lover. She tries to revive him while she accuses him of being unfaithful. Until you go your own way and get lost in the dark.

Schoenberg summed up his goal in the composition of the work: “To represent in slow motion what happens in a single second of maximum spiritual excitement, a single second extended to last half an hour”.

The idea of ​​the work interacts intimately with the moment in which it is born. Erwartung maintains a close relationship with German expressionism, in which subjective perception, usually marked by brutal conflicts, imposes itself on an idea of ​​reality.

“There are several ways of reading Erwartung. Some think of the character in the light of schizophrenia. Others ask the question about the murder of his lover: was he killed by his wife herself? “, Adriane remembers.” But I don’t follow a naturalistic path, I prefer to think of the work in the light of the idea of ​​the unconscious. Every thought has something behind it that suggests and defines it. And the text suggests just that, each sentence evokes something. “

And there is, of course, the forest. “The image of nature is very present in the 19th century, in romanticism. But there is no idyllic relationship here. There is no contemplation. The forest is active and you are part of it. It means the loss of yourself in the means of emotions. ” says the soprano.

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Erwartung

The city theater of San Paolo. Ramos de Azevedo Square, s / nº.

6 (8), 20h; Sat (9), 17h. R $ 10 to R $ 60. https://theatromunicipal.org.br

Source: Terra

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