FORTUNA WON'T BE FAUVEL'S MATCH!

DVD / 2024

Performing

director and production designer: Karmina Šilec

adviser for movement: Sidra Bell

costume designer: Belinda Radulović

author of the image: Miguel Vallinas

light designer: Andrej Hajdinjak

sound designer: Danilo Ženko

assistant director: Dorian Šilec Petek

set design creation adviser: Marko Japelj

performers:

vocal theatre Carmina Slovenica

instrumentalists: Nino Mureškič, Žarko Ignjatović, Živa Horvat, Nadja Stegne

Fauvel: Eva Germ

Fortuna: Jasmina Črnčič

narrator from the tape: Aleš Valič

Angels: CS Prime (leader Jasna Drobne)

conductor: Karmina Šilec

 

From the Press

… music of timelessness – from choral monophony, contemporary polyphony, clusters -, contemporary movements, youthful fluid, creative maturity, virtue-less time performed and set to music …
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… a distinctly modern and effective score radiates in a new light and leaves a far stronger trace than the already existing staleness of performing arts …
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… music theatre which … is becoming a category, a phenomenon and a measure on its own …
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… Carmina Slovenica is shaping a new aesthetics in Slovenia which is far better understood by the openness of abroad than at home …
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… her projects are included in the Slovene art pantheon of the unforgettable …
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… the synaesthetic effect of individual elements of this comprehensive work of art particularly intensive and original ...
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 … astonished at the ability of the young corpus, acting with confidence, mastering the challenging choreography, is verbally nimble and musically perfect …
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… dramaturgical arc of the performance is incontestable, and the suggestiveness of scenes underlined by incredible abilities of young women-actors, performers, finest interpreters … 
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… Carmina Slovenica outlined a particularly glamorous music story … a brilliant performing body like no other in the world … 
Dnevnik

 

… passionate and musically professional appearances included at times a particularly terrifying carnivalesque savageness … yet at times they were distinguished by more sensitive body gestures
Odzven

Program

LOJZE LEBIČ: FAUVEL '86

Choregie project Fortuna won't be Fauvel's match! is based on Lojze Lebič’s stage work Fauvel ’86 (Slovene text by Janez Menart) for soloists, mixed choir, piano, percussion, hand instruments and recordings on tape (partially adapted for performance by girls’ choir), added materials are medieval rituals, literature, philosophical texts and music from the Roman de Fauvel.

 

texts by:  Gervais du Bus, Raoul Chaillou de Pesstain, Desiderius Erasmus, Milan Jesih, Eustache Deschamps

sources:

Emma Dillon: Medieval Music-Making and the Roman de Fauvel

Samuel N. Rosenberg in Hans Tischler: The Monophonic Songs in the Roman de Fauvel

languages: Latin, Slovene, French