An Index of Metals

Shortly before his death, Romitelli together with his friend Paolo Pachini and the poetess Kenka Lèkovich, resurrected the dream of a total scenic art (a furnace of sensations, they called it, an_ initiation rite_) in the manner of the Futurists: rhythms and gleams of light striking metals (for the video part), poems in iron and chrome singing of fusion with matter (Kenka Lekovich), acoustic/electric music highly amplified, filtered, spatialised, in as artificial a manner as possible. An Index of Metals bears vigorous witness to this determination to go beyond: sizzling orchestration, electric and psychedelic; a voice which plays on effects, murmurs with reverb, cackles into a megaphone, screams like a pop star; and an electric guitar score of a kind that no ‘serious’ composer has ever written, sliding across an infinite range of tones with a lightness of touch and blurring of contours.

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Interrupted Melody

Interrupted Melody

1955

La Traviata

La Traviata

2006

Così fan tutte

Così fan tutte

2006

The Magic Flute

The Magic Flute

2006

Hansel & Gretel - The Met

Hansel & Gretel - The Met

1982

Bedways

Bedways

2010

Wagner: Götterdämmerung

Wagner: Götterdämmerung

2014

Arabella

Arabella

2014

Serenade

Serenade

1956

Puccini: Madama Butterfly

Puccini: Madama Butterfly

2017

Carmen

Carmen

1944

Swan Lake

Swan Lake

2018

Long-Haired Hare

Long-Haired Hare

1949

Anna Netrebko: The Woman, the Voice

Anna Netrebko: The Woman, the Voice

2003

Turandot

Turandot

1987

Maytime

Maytime

1937

Rigoletto

Rigoletto

1977

The Metropolitan Opera: La Fille du Régiment

The Metropolitan Opera: La Fille du Régiment

2008

The Makropulos Affair

The Makropulos Affair

2011

And the Spring Comes

And the Spring Comes

2007

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