Orlando Furioso Concert for String Quartet Drum and Soprano A

Orlando Furioso! Concert for String Quartet, Drum and Soprano A project by Roland Olbeter Barcelona 2007 Index The Project The staging How do they work? The Music The Libretto Technical Rider Resumé Credits Distribution pag. pag. pag. pag. pag. pag. pag. pag. pag. 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 11 13 2 Orlando Furioso! Concert for String Quartet, Drum and Soprano The Project Art is generally on the borderline. The greatest achievements of the human being are located on the thin line that gathers revolution and transgression with tradition, will and past. Orlando Furioso! Concert for String Quartet, Drum and Soprano, belongs to this category and is the consequence of a long decantation process. 3 Orlando Furioso! Concert for String Quartet, Drum and Soprano The staging The sound-robots are set out on stage as if they were the quintet instrumentalists, flanking a large rotating bust of Orlando of some 120 centimetres in height that dominates the space. Projected on the face is a video of Orlando singing his three arias. At the rear of the stage sits a large video screen upon which a series of subtitles and also images detailing the distinct instruments are projected in real time. The fifteen minutes of video retelling the trip to the moon capture the attention above the rest. The general approach of the scene shares the dynamism between the only human interpreter of the play, the singer, the projected images, the movement of the instruments and the lighting. 4 Orlando Furioso! Concert for String Quartet, Drum and Soprano How do they work? A computer sends specific orders to the instruments for them to execute some particular movements: 105 microkeys press the strings and the bow makes them resound. The E-BOW is an electromagnetic system that substitutes the violin’s traditional bow and that, depending on its position upon the string and that of the selected pick-up, obtains a great variety of timbres. It is fully innovative and has been specifically developed with this work in mind. Besides the E-BOW, each instrument is capable of producing two types of pizzicato and tapping styles. The sound obtained through such a process is gathered by electro-acoustic pick-ups and it is then amplified through a traditional system. No digital postproduction is needed, just a filter and a compressor rack of analog effects. Ten servomotors make the diapason turn over its vertical axis and the audible tube over its horizontal axis. This performance capacity is completely precise and synchronic, and will allow for the development of an intuitive and dynamic choreography in real time. The instruments become instrumentalists. 5 Orlando Furioso! Concert for String Quartet, Drum and Soprano The Music The music of Orlando Furioso! was commissioned to showcase for the first time the five instruments. The music has a contemporary/classic nature. It is a music aimed at a general audience and not at a more trained listener. The main features are the new possibilities that the instruments can offer and the intention of offering a play with its own musical value, in close relation to the narrative thread. 6 Orlando Furioso! Concert for String Quartet, Drum and Soprano The Libretto Orlando Furioso! Concert for a String Quartet, Drum and Soprano, divides this long epic-dramatic poem by Ludovico Ariosto, into two parts that correspond with two chapters of the book: “Orlando’s Craziness” and “The Trip to the Moon”. The first part, “Orlando’s Craziness”, narrates the history of a massive craziness. Orlando appears as both a hero and a loser. During the tireless prosecution of his disdainful beloved, he discovers the sad news: the woman he loves has given herself to a humble African soldier. Orlando loses his mind and, enraged, spreads destruction everywhere he goes. The second part, “The Trip to the Moon”, recounts the quest for Orlando’s sanity by Astolfo, his best friend. Astolfo, an English knight, reaches the moon by riding his winged horse. There he meets St. John the Evangelist, who shows him the place where all the lost things on Earth accumulate –lovers’ sighs, adulations, spare time, frustrated wishes, youthful beauty...- There he finds, inside a bottle, Orlando’s lost power of reason. Astolfo recovers it and returns to African soil to bring it back to its rightful owner. This allows Astolfo to go back to his adventures as a Charlemagne knight. 7 Orlando Furioso! Concert for String Quartet, Drum and Soprano Technical Rider Orlando Furioso Concert for String Quartet, Drum and Soprano (1) STAGE Stage space: 10m wide, 6m deep (minimum) Height of lighting lamps: 6m Floor: black Black Box (three lines each side of legs and a border) 10 KW/380 V power point on stage 16 A /220 V power point on stage SOUND 8 (6), (depending on the size of the hall) loudspeakers (500 -1200w), (depending on the size of the hall) 2 Subwoofers adapted to the PA boxes Independent signal inputs (8 in) for each of the amplification channels (aux - phases) (No link) (Approach like eight monitors) Adjustable tripod for each of the PA boxes Loudspeaker power adapted to the hall (Clair Brothers, L-Acoustics, D&B, Meyer Sound, Martin Audio, Nexo) Signal Processor 8 Graphic Mono EQ (31b.oct) - Microphones - 1 Lavalier Sennheiser ME 104 (Cardioid) (beige colour) (no headband) (Soprano) Accessories Complete Radio Frequency Kit for the Lavalier Sennheiser ME 104 2 D.I. Boxes - Control Desk - 12 input channels - 8 auxiliary channels for PA distribution (8 loudspeakers) - Stereo Out and output buses - Phantom (Midas, Crest, Yamaha, A&H) Others - Stage sub-box (Patch, Splitter). (12 in / 10 out (phases)) - Multipair cable (length depending on the appropriate location of the control). - Harting output (XLR,.....depending on EQ) - Minimum wiring (16 XLR Balanced, 10 Jack-Jack Balanced) (12 XLR – Jack-mono). - Other necessary wiring: (Patch – Phases) (Aux Mixer – Eq) - Multiple power points. 8 Orlando Furioso! Concert for String Quartet, Drum and Soprano Technical Rider Orlando Furioso Concert for String Quartet, Drum and Soprano (2) LIGHTING SPOTLIGHTS - 16 Profile spotlights 1 kW. 15-42º. - 20 PC 1 kW with barndoors and gel frames. - 10 PAR 64 Lamp CP 60. 3 PAR 64 Lamp CP 62. ACCESSORIES - 20 Barndoors for the PC. - 9 Iris for profile spot - Gel frames for all the spotlights. - Lee filters as shown on lighting plan. REGULATION AND CONTROL - 48 Dimmer channels (2 kW). - 1 Compulite Spark or Spark 4D lighting desk - DMX Cable must be able to go from our control (stage) to the dimmers. STRUCTURES - Electrified bars as shown in the lighting plan. - 2 lighting towers. - Aluminium ladder or elevator to focus the spotlights. VIDEO 5000 lumens video projector. Preferably HD. New bulb, the optic and the support for the projector depend on the possibility of working with retro-projection or frontal projection. That depends on the depth of the stage. Video signal cable to the backstage. A second 3000 lumens projector to project upon Orlando’s bust. Optic with zoom. Projection area: 1m x 1m approx. Distance from projector to the head: 7m approx. INTERCOMS We request intercoms control/stage. SCHEDULE Day 1 -9am/ 2pm Arrival and lighting assembly - 4pm/ 9pm Staging and focusing lights - 9am/ 3pm sound testing - 4pm/ 6pm rehearsal - 9pm concert - Day 2 DRESSING ROOM Dressing room with shower (hot water) for the singer, Mirror with lights Several hangers for the clothes 2 chairs Backstage dressing room for fast dress changes dusring the scene: Table, chair, hungers and small light. - For the unloading we need 2 workers during 2 hours. For the assembly of the material in the Technical Rider (lighting, sound and video) we need the theatre technical crew. The dismantling is carried out just after the last concert. For the assembly/dismantling we need 3 workers during 2 hours. - - 9 Orlando Furioso! Concert for String Quartet, Drum and Soprano Resume Roland Olbeter Born in Hannover in 1955. Set designer and robot artist, resident in Barcelona since 1988. Trained as a violinist and a naval constructor, he has created several plays for theatre, opera and large format spectacles. Member of the MAAT collective, along with Pere Tantiñá and Franc Aleu, dedicated to the creation of impossible artefacts. He has carried out several stage designs for opera and theatre in different countries as a regular collaborator of La Fura dels Baus. He has worked in several projects of robotic art with Marcel·lí Antúnez. He will present in the EXPO 2008 a big pavilion focused on water and energy. He is also the author of the stage design for Richard Wagner’s tetralogy: “The Ring of the Nibelung” with Zubin Mehta as music director and Carlos Padrisa as scene director, released in 2007. Since his participation in the Opening Ceremonies of the Barcelona’92 Olympic Games, he has specialized in kinetic and audible works for performances and exhibitions. After launching Sound Clusters, a musical space for sound creation, in the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona, within the framework of the Sónar festival, he now presents Orlando Furioso! Concert for String Quartet, Drum and Soprano. 10 Orlando Furioso! Concert for String Quartet, Drum and Soprano Michael Gross Born in Ilingen (Saarland, Germany), he began playing trumpet at age 9. After receiving a classical education in Saarbrücken and Karlsruhe with Reinhold Friedrich and Manfred Endres, he began to specialize in all aspects of contemporary music. He played as a soloist in Klangforum Wien, in Ensemble Modern and in Musque Vivante. He has taken part in projects with Frank Zappa, Karl Heinz Stockhausen, György Ligeti, Vinko Globokar, Mauricio Kagel, The Art Ensemble of Chicago, Heiner Goebbels and others. Since 1995 he has been concentrating on improvisation. Therefore he has collaborated with Buch Morris’ Berlin Skyscraper Orchestra, Elliot Sharp, Tony Buck, Joe Williamson and many others. He has performed with pop and jazz bands such as Swim Two Birds, Lello Voce and Frigg. Michael Gross lives in Germany. Since 1996 he has been dedicated principally to composing. Claudia Schneider Born in Roses, she studied music and voice in Academia Marshall, Barcelona, with Montserrat Aparici. She attended voice classes in Scola de Treviso, Italy. She won the contest Noves Veus organized by Opera de Cambra de Catalunya, and complemented her training with courses in Lied, carried out by Paul Schilawsky and Dalton Baldwin. She has performed in Edinburgh, Grec de Barcelona, Lyrique des Catalognes, Otoño de Madrid, Mérida, Lörrach and Belfast festivals, among others. She has taken part in several seasons of Gran Teatre del Liceu with the operas: D.Q. Don Quijote, in Barcelona, Katia Kabanova, Pikovaya Dama e Il Viaggio a Reims and L’enfant et les sortileges. Her most recent works are Sama Samaruck Suck Suck, an opera-circus play, in La Villette de Paris, and the opera El compositor, la cantante, el cocinero y la pecadora, both by Carlos Santos. 11 Orlando Furioso! Concert for String Quartet, Drum and Soprano Credits Concept and direction: Roland Olbeter Composition and 2nd voice: Michael Gross Mezzosoprano: Claudia Schneider Tenor: Antonio Comas Libretto: Ariosto/Burkhart Kroeber Video: Franc Aleu / URANO Lighting: Paco Beltran Wardrobe: Chu Uroz Bust sculptor: Carlos de la Madrid Instruments video editor: Miguel Rubio Technical project: Francisco Santiago Technical development and direction: Carlos Jovellar, E.B.A. Instruments construction: Christian Konn, E.B.A., MASTERS Sound designer: Carlos Fesser Sound technician: Pera Rifá Instruments construction: MASTERS Production: Marta Pérez-Porro Sales: MAGNÉTICA MANAGEMENT / Elena Blanco O.F. is a Roland Olbeter production, co-produced by Festival d´Opera de Butxaca and Grec festival. Sponsors www-site: Albert Claret, Isabel Darnell, Pep Sala With the support of 12 Orlando Furioso! Concert for String Quartet, Drum and Soprano Distribution Elena Blanco Directora Comercial T +34 934522136 elenablanco@magneticam.com Magnética Management S.L. Gran Vía, 546, 2-3 08011 Barcelona Judy Lomas International booking manager T +34 934522135 judylomas@magneticam.com + info: www.rolandolbeter.com 13 Orlando Furioso! Concert for String Quartet, Drum and Soprano Graphic design: www.albertclaret.com