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PLACEBO or Is There One Who Would Not Weep
Stage concert in 14 tableaux
Concept, scene and direction: Karmina Šilec
Light design: Andrej Hajdinjak
Costume design: Belinda Radulovič
Movement: Karmina Šilec, Kaja Lorenci
Eia mater, fons amoris! -- Hail, mother, source of love!
Man surmounts death, the unthinkable, by postulating instead -- in the stead and place of thought as well as death -- maternal love. That love, of which divine love will be no more than a not always convincing derivative, mother love as the primitive shelter that guarantees the survival. The representation of the maternal is established on the site of that tempered anguish known as love.
A meditation inspired by the suffering of Mary, Jesus's mother, during his crucifixion, and by the medieval text The Sorrowful Mother Stood.
Performing: Carmina Slovenica, Sabina Cvilak, Bernhard Landauer, Jožica Avbelj, Olga Kacjan, Slovenian Chamber Choir, Marko Hatlak, Karmen Pečar, Musica Cubicularis, Renata Vereš Klančič, Kaja Lorenci etc.
Music: G. B. Pergolesi, J. S. Bach, J. Cooper, A. Vivaldi, P. Vasks, G. Bryars, K. Šilec
Union, Maribor, 12 and 13 January 2012, Festival Choregie aka Choregie
Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana, 21 January 2012
Cankarjev dom, 22 January 2012, Vocal Subscription of the Slovenian Chamber Choir
Production: Carmina Slovenica
Coproduction: MARIBOR 2012 -- European Capital of Culture, Slovenian Philharmonic, Cankarjev dom