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"Król Lear" (King Lear) - A New Piece by Paweł Mykietyn
2012-06-15
On 9 September 2012, during the Sacrum Profanum festival, Paweł Mykietyn’s musical „King Lear” will be premiered. The Spanish text is mainly based on the Spanish play by dramatist and director Rodrigo Garcia „King Lear”, with fragments from Shakespeare making an appearance. The text was adapted by Piotr Gruszczyński. Paweł Mykietyn said about the work that “this is a form in which the text is completely equal to the music. The music always follows the text, Shakespeare’s excerpts are sung, and Garcia’s - spoken. One could say that here this speaking is a kind of Sprechgesang, written in rhythm, contained in bars, and the music plays all the time behind the text, sometimes more illustratively, sometimes less. Shakespeare’s text is about eight percent of the work, the rest is Garcia’s text. There is no clear storyline, the plot is subordinate to the text.” Concerning the form of the work the composer said, “It is difficult to define the form. I called it a musical, though strictly it isn’t. For sure it is not an opera, and I never intended to call it an opera because the essence of this work is that it is not sung, rather the opposite – nearly all of it is spoken.”During the premiere the performers will be: Matteo de Monti (King Lear), Katarzyna Moś (Cordelia), Julieta Gonzalez (Goneril), Beatriz Blanco (Regan) and the orchestra Ensemble Modern. This will be a concert performance but the composer does not rule out a future stage presentation.
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