The intertwining of love and violence in Salvatore Sciarrino’s new opera, “Venere e Adone,” is perfectly suited to the composer’s dynamic and expressive range.
Sciarrino, whose new opera, “Venere e Adone,” just had its première in Hamburg, loves sounds that emerge and fade like breaths or breezes.The Italian composer Salvatore Sciarrino, whose austerely sensuous opera “Venere e Adone” had its première on May 28th, at Staatsoper Hamburg, has long possessed his own inviolable sonic world. Born in Palermo, Sicily, in 1947, he is largely self-taught as a composer and at the age of fifteen was already winning notice at Italian new-music festivals.
After a time, you are likely to be startled, even frightened. As much as Sciarrino is associated with quietude—he is, in some ways, the Italian counterpart to Morton Feldman, the godfather of modernist pianissimo—he routinely administers sonic shocks, which are all the more unsettling for occurring amid a general hush. At the end of the Prologue of “Venere,” the full orchestra bursts in with a brief, raw instrumental frenzy, as if a breeze had gathered into a destructive gust.
The primary source for the “Venere e Adone” libretto, which Sciarrino wrote in collaboration with the novelist Fabio Casadei Turroni, is Giambattista Marino’s “L’Adone,” a vast, voluptuous Baroque poem that was first published in 1623. Marino’s treatment of the story gives unusual prominence to the boar, who, in this telling, is as smitten with Adonis’s beauty as Venus is.
The American bass-baritone Evan Hughes led the cast with a gruffly soulful portrayal of Il Mostro. Layla Claire was a pure-voiced, resonant Venus, Randall Scotting a vocally and physically muscular Adonis. Georges Delnon, the director, brought to bear a distinctive aesthetic, mounting quirky high-fashion tableaux in minimalist spaces, but he glossed over the score’s mythological mysteries.
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