THE POEM OF THE MOUNTAIN. Experimental open-air opera

Every person is striving to conquer their mountain. Often reaching the summit becomes the life’s meaning. Now, when the goal is reached, the peak is conquered – how is one supposed to descend? The text of “the Poem of the Mountain” by Marina Tsvetaeva is a painful memory of reaching the pinnacle (of enjoyment, life, creativity) and the inevitable descent, loss, separation, “back into life, which we all know is: a rabble — a market — a barracks” . The opera begins with a climactic height and, together with the text of the poem, moves down to death — and resurrection.

The action will unfold on the embankment of the Kama River. With the first chant, the actresses and the folklore ensemble will set off on their descent down the slope dotted with the garbage of memories. "Living through" the main stages of human existence, embodied by rituals (birth, wedding, death), the performers will try to construct their metaphorical mountain — to recreate reality from memories, to bring back the past, to turn back time. In order to "leave the auditorium" in the final, all the participants of the action and the audience will have to go upstairs to the church, back to where it all started.

The musical component of the performance is inspired by the words of Joseph Brodsky about Tsvetaeva's poetry: "The source of rhythm is time. Remember I said that any poem is reorganized time. <…> Time speaks to the individual in various voices. Time has its own bass, its own tenor-and it has its own falsetto. If you like, Tsvetaeva is the falsetto of time. The voice that goes beyond the range of proper notation. " The score by Dmitry Mazurov, a composer and sound artist who constantly collaborates with musicAeterna and the Diaghilev Festival, uses folklore voices, accordion, wind instruments in combination with dark electronics.