Se Ora (opus 88 nr 2)
Soprano voice and vibraphone
Programme notes
Born in Todi in 1947, Patrizia Cavalli is an Italian poet who published her first collection of poems in 1974. She has won several literature prices and awards and is also a translator of Shakespeare works. She currently lives and writes in Rome. Her writing is based on classical stylistic norms which blend with a truly contemporary language. Soprano Sabrina Zuber gave this poem to Robert Casteels: If now, you were at my door And you would take off your spectacles And I would take off mine, which are similar And then, you would enter in my mouth And without fearing uneven kisses Tell me “Amore mio, what happened”, It would be a magnificent piece of theatre.
Handwritten sketches and drafts
to be found on page 336 of the red cover, A4 size, 385 pages, sketchbook and yellow cover logbook #4
Completion of the composition
12-V-2012
Programme booklet of the premiere
see Music from the Heart: special project (2012) under Articles
Score follower
see link #1
Original creation by designer Neol Leung Yick Chuen [2013] (reproduced with the permission of the designer)
Duration:
2' 45"
Composed In:
2012
Dedicated to:
Parts:
pg 6 in the score Music from the Heart, please e mail <rc@robertcasteels.com>
First performance:
15.07.12 Recital Hall, Esplanade Theatres on the Bay, Singapore
First performed by:
Sabrina Zuber (soprano) and Bai Jiaxing (vibraphone)
Commissioned by:
979-0-9016515-6-2
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