Leif Aare, Dagens Nyhete

Fortunato (1993)

Brilliant adventure!… “…You are here invited to participate in an operatic adventure like nothing you have ever experienced before…Libretto, music, production, light and choreography combine into a total conception…. The result is a piece of operatic art of the highest potency…Voland is executed…[and] a ray of light streams out from a great crack in the mountain. Up on its summit, his mother appears transfigured. She sings a loving vocalise. [Fortunato] escapes up to her and there follows a true offspring of one of music history’s most sensuous love duets: that between Nero and Poppea in Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione di Poppea…Monteverdi and Britten are only two cards in McQueen’s musical hand. In this work, he covers the stylistic gamut of music history…All these elements have been forged into a remarkably personal and genuinely dramatic musical language. Leitmotives and symmetries, Latin Hymns and absolute musical forms function as landmarks and signposts.”