Okapi & Aldo Kapi’s Orchestra “Opera Riparata – Tribute to Bruno Munari” [2011]
CD Jewelbox
cod. OFF555004
Track-listing
1° Act – Preludes:
1 Mozart – Così Fan Tutte – 01 – Act 1 Overture
2 Beethoven – Obertura Fidelio Y Sinfonica Eroica – Obertura
3 Wagner – Die Meinstersinger Von Nurnberg – Prelude Act 3
4 Rossini – Guglielmo Tell – Sinfonia
5 Verdi – I Vespri Siciliani – Overture
6 Mikhail Glinka – Ruslan And Ludmila – Overture
7 Weber – Oberon – Overture
8 Bellini – Norma – Prelude
9 Bedrich Sbetana – La Sposa Venduta – Overture
10 Bizet – Carmen – Overture
11 Strauss – Zwischenspiel Aus “Capriccio” – Interlude
12 Puccini – Manon Lescaut – Preludio Atto 1
2° Act – Duels:
13 A. Lombard – Faust – Faust V/S Valentin
14 Bellini – I Capuletti E I Montecchi – Romeo V/S Tebaldo
15 Wagner – Lohengrin – Lohengrin V/S Telramund
16 Strauss – Il Cavaliere Della Rosa – Octavian V/S Von Ochs
18 Verdi – La Forza Del Destino – Don Alvaro V/S Don Carlo
19 Verdi – Il Trovatore – Conte Di Luna V/S Manrico
3° Act – Dances
20 Moussorgsky – Boris Godunkov – I Do Not Believe In Your Passion
21 Offenbach – Orphee Aux Enfers – N 25 – Galop
22 Wagner – Tannhauser – Naht Euch Dem Strande
23 Ponchielli – Gioconda – Act 3 – Prodigio! Icanto! La Danza Delle Ore
24 Gluck – Alceste – Act Two – Splendido Sorge Il Di
25 Gluck – Orfeo & Euridice – Dance Of The Furies
26 Meyerbeer – Hughenots – Atto Secondo – Egli Vien. Egli Vien!
27 Purcell – Dido And Aeneas – Act 2 . Echo Dance Of The Furies
28 Verdi – Traviata – Di Madride Noi Siam Mattatori
29 Strauss – Salomè – Tanz Der Sieben Schleier
30 Verdi – Aida – Act 2. Scene 1. Chi Mai Fra G’Inni E I Plausi
31 Bordin – Prince Igor – Polovtsian Dances
4° Act – Storms:
32 Rossini – Il Barbiere Di Siviglia – Act 2 – Temporale
33 Wagner – Walkirie – Vorspiel
34 Glinka – Una Vita Per Lo Zar – Act 4 – 01 – Entr’Acte
35 Verdi – Otello – Verdi. Otello Act 1 – 01 Una Vela! Una Vela!
36 Rameau – Indes Galantes – Les Fleurs – Air Pour Borée Et La Rose
37 Berlioz – Les Troyens – Acte V – Vallon Sonore
38 Verdi – Rigoletto – V’ho Ingannato. Colpevole Fui
39 Wagner – Olandese Volante – Johohe! Johohe! Hoe! Hoe!
40 Cherubini – Medea – Taci. Giason
Liner notes
Broken Opera (and Fixed) is a tribute to Bruno Munari and to his Broken Opera (created with Davide Mosconi).
Starting from the original text written in 1989 by Munari and Mosconi, the musician Økapi and the visual artist Infidel de-structure and re-compose 40 famous Operas from the great Italian tradition, following the contemporary framework of digital remix (cutting, breaking down, juxtaposing and overlapping).
While Munari and Mosconi’s monumental game/engine forecasted several performers and the whole scenic equipment, the Fixed Opera re-handles the same elements of the Opera language using only digital audio and visual instruments.
The possibility of digitalizing amongst every kind of cultural product, and the easiness of their retrieval turns that availability of the whole music history described in the original project into something which today is more real than ever, and brings Munari’s words into a new level, more prophetic than visionary as well.
The Fixed Opera implies two different parts: studio session and live performance.
In the first step, Økapi and Infidel work on parallel paths mashing up the 40 Operas in short audio/visual portions of 1’11” time length each.
The strictness of the writing mode is controverted in the latter part, when these rational and individual means meet, crash and melt, following the logic and the spontaneity of contemporary improv modules.
Just like in a child’s play, the Fixed Opera, though following strict principles and methods of academic composition, at the same time thrives on keeping itself close to the aim of staying free from ties and rules.
It therefore suggests curiosity as a way of knowledge and creation but also as a transgression from primary forms to reach an unexpected result.