Transfigured Night

Presentation

Two people walk through the dark­ness. One car­ries a secret; the oth­er chooses to listen. From this jour­ney emerges an intim­ate trans­form­a­tion: in Schoenberg’s Trans­figured Night, for­give­ness does not erase any­thing — it trans­forms. It opens anoth­er path, where love becomes a force of eman­cip­a­tion and the pos­sib­il­ity of a new begin­ning.

Around this incan­des­cent work, Schubert, Glière, Pur­cell and Viv­aldi reveal oth­er facets of desire, fear, solitude and the impulse towards the oth­er. The cen­tur­ies answer one anoth­er, each becom­ing anoth­er stage along the same inner jour­ney.

On stage, six musi­cians become six pres­ences, six tra­ject­or­ies. They move closer, drift apart, search for one anoth­er and find one anoth­er again. Between shad­ow and light, solitude and togeth­er­ness, the music traces a jour­ney that leads nowhere in par­tic­u­lar, but towards anoth­er way of being one­self through anoth­er.