FULL Voci da Hebron (Cristian Carrara) Modena 2024 Jean-Luc Balestra, Shaked Bar, David Tricou, Maria Bagala

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: Voci da Hebron   
• Composer: Carrara Cristian   
• Libretto: Sandro Cappelletto    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: Teatro Comunale di Modena, Italy  
• Recorded: February 18, 2024
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: Jean-Luc Balestra, Shaked Bar, David Tricou, Maria Bagala
• Conductor: Arthur Fagen  
• Orchestra: l'Ensemble della Filarmonica del Teatro Comunale di Modena  
• Stage Director: Paul Emile Fourny  
• Stage Designer: Benito Leonori  
• Costume Designer: Giovanna Fiorentini  
• Lighting Designer: Patrick Méeüs  

Information about the Recording

• Published by: RAI  
• Date Published: 2025  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: nosubs  

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  An opera that is nothing short of touching, a story of dramatic contemporaneity and archetypal at the same time. The main protagonist is an Old Man who in the show is called “the Stranger” and represents Abraham. He is a widower and has the supreme task of fulfilling his wife Hannah’s wish: to be buried in Hebron, where the tombs of the patriarchs of the Old Testament are located, venerated not only by Jews but also by Muslims. An arduous task for him, an elderly man. The Stranger belongs and does not belong to the conflict situation, but he has lived there for many years and has a particular authority over two young people he met, the Israeli Ruth and the Palestinian Mohammed, so much so that he convinced them to do this apparently absurd thing. He had met them at the checkpoint of the tormented city of the West Bank divided in two, even though he lives on the hill where he cultivates the vineyard. Ruth and Mohammed only know each other by sight: Ruth was there on guard and Mohammed had to cross the gate. Voices from Hebronbegins with slides that tell the story of the suffering of the two young people. Ruth lost her brother in a terrorist attack in Jerusalem. Mohammed is angry with the Israeli soldiers for the embezzlement he is forced to endure every day and because he knows he has no future. “This condition of fragility unites them, despite the deep social and existential division – the composer Cristian Carrara tells us -. Above this fight between the two boys, however, there is the great love of a lifetime between the Old Man and his wife”. A love that lights up the scene despite its real “absence”. At a certain point, a guest with Ruth in the Stranger’s house the night before the funeral journey, Mohammed wonders how beautiful Hannah (played by Maria Bagalà) must have been until he tries to discover her face. There Ruth calls him back: look, you are profaning the love between the Old Man and his wife. It is the fuse that makes the argument between the two young people explode. Thus begins a heated debate, in which all the deep reasons for conflict and misunderstanding emerge.

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