Galileo Bound

Laboratorio Nove Firenze, Centro Iniziative Teatrali Campi Bisenzio, Croatian National Theatre in Rijeka, Eurokaz - Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb

GALILEO BOUND

opera corale

The project Galileo Bound, commissioned for the celebrations around the 400^th anniversary of Galileo’s discovery of binoculars, was created in Florence in May 2009 and premiered at Fabbrica Europa Festival as a co-production of Eurokaz and Croatian National Theatre in Rijeka with Italian theatre organizations as partners.

Galileo Bound can be described as a persiflage of a baroque opera with original music by contemporary Macedonian composer Marjan Nekak. The director Branko Brezovec, announced in Italian press as a charismatic theatre director from Croatia, “the most important representative of the director’s theatre from Eastern Europe”, worked with a cast of Italian and Croatian actors and with participation of nine choir singers from the Croatian National Opera in Rijeka.

Libretto is based on an unusual juxtaposition of the motives from two plays: Brecht's Life of Galileo and Eschylus’ Prometheus Bound. Through music, choreographic and textual form, this opera corale examines the relationship between science and art, that is, between science and the system of conceptions which determine our life experience.

" ... Brezovec manages to accomplish the performance as a "total" experience into which the audience is drawn, just like great theatre directors do: he confronts the spectator with something physical, with something violent and crazy in a peculiar way..."
(Francesco Tei, Hystrio no. 3)

"Ingenious vision about visionaries."
(Darko Gašparović, Vijenac)