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AMAZONAS – A theater-music in three parts – second part

Having defined a general framework that provided parameters for the creators, we began dealing with the work itself, or rather, with how it was to be staged. Officially, the opera Amazonas was categorized as Theater-Music for reasons specific to the musical world of Munich, which reserves the term “opera” for a very specific segment of contemporary operatic works. Among ourselves, however, we always knew we were working on a contemporary multimedia opera called Amazonas.

AMAZONAS – A theater-music in three parts

This page is a record of the opera Amazon - Music Theatre in Three Parts production process and presents my reflection on such cross-cultural experiment. The project had Artist's conception of Peter Ruzicka, Peter Weibel, Laymert Garcia dos Santos; Consulting Bruce Albert, David Kopenawa, Siegfried Mauser; Initiative Joachim Bernauer, José Wagner Garcia. By SESC São Paulo, Goethe Institute, Munich Biennale (Ale), ZKM | Center for Art…

Projections of the Forest-Land: The Yanomami Image-Drawing

The Yanomami drawings are, literally, extraordinary. For aesthetic criteria, but also, and mainly, for their intriguing and mysterious character, when we stop to think about how and by whom they are made. The images that the reader-viewer can appreciate in the preceding and following pages constitute a small sampling from the collections of Carlo Zacquini and Claudia Andujar, two tireless defenders of the Yanomami territory and…

Partenheimer and the drawing of drawing

[I] Whether European, Chinese or Brazilian, art critics and commentators of Partenheimer’s work often point to the meditative, aerial, carefree, imaginative and even lyrical nature of his drawings and paintings, never failing to mention the enigmatic balance which makes his work and the silence that appears to inhabit it so highly recognizable (consider the Roman Diary, Carmen, De Coloribus, and Zur Grammatik series or Die fragilen…