FULL IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE (Simone Spagnolo) London 2012

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE  
• Composer: Spagnolo Simone   
• Libretto: Texts from writings by Gogol, Dostoyevsky, Calvino, Goethe, Spagnolo, newspapers and magazines; all texts adapted, translated and assembled by Simone Spagnolo    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: London, UK  
• Recorded: August 9, 2012
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: Felicity Smith, Michael Butchard, Daniel George Miller, Dario Dugandzic, Anna McLachlan, Jasmine Adrian-Dawson, Leah Blakelock, Georgia Bishop, Kristian Cleworth, Tim Elliott, Tom Asher
• Conductor: Diego Garcia Rodriguez  
• Orchestra: Instrumental Ensemble  
• Stage Director: Simone Spagnolo  
• Costume Designer:   

Information about the Recording

• Published by: tete a tete  
• Date Published: 2012  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: nosubs  

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  From a concept by Simone Spagnolo

  A Narrator, lots of balls, a knife and a gun, common people and infiltrators: It Makes No Difference is designed upon concepts of non-linear-narrative which, together with its dramaturgical and mnemonic implications, aims to metaphorically express the feelings of contemporary Italian generations with regards to its socio-political system. The characters are very different and seem to be not connected within the plot, however their stories eventually meet. This work is written for four singers, choir and chamber orchestra.

  ‘More compelling than ever I saw the necessity of writing an opera that could be at once moving and contemporary despite its historical setting, an opera that would depict the tragedy of our time.’ With these words Luigi Dallapiccola described his feelings when conceiving in the 1940s his opera Il Prigioniero (1950). Those were the years of the Second World War, during which Dallapiccola experienced the atrocities of the war and the racial-political persecution. It is from the same necessity of representing the contemporary condition that It makes no difference was generated: it is an operatic work that aims to metaphorically represent our socio-political status, our lack of leading values, and our difficulty in understanding what is good and bad, right and wrong, left and right, who is who.

  Following the trend of post-1945 Italian opera, this work breaks the dramaturgical relationship with the classical norms of time, place and action, presenting decontextualize characters who do not evolve their own psychologies during the course of the opera, but instead act as a mere representation of ideas. At the same time It makes no difference shows a multi/non-linear narrative: all scenes and characters are apparently unrelated, and it is the audience’s unconscious imagination the only key to collage the meaning.

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