Musical Drama - Voices and Instruments

Complex and full of metamorphoses, Katarina Livljanic’s interpretation of this story, rooted in the Dalmatian Renaissance, transforms a Biblical narration into a theatrical experience, woven around characters who have emerged from the text to become profoundly human and alive for us today.

Judith Beheading Holofernes

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Judith
Excerpt from a concert at the Zadar Festival (Croatia), in July 2007

 

Summary

Judith enters the gate of the city and asks the guards to introduce her to Holofernes.

The great warrior sees her, deeply struck by her beauty. He invites Judith to his court and prepares a big feast. Drunken, he falls asleep on his bed, hoping in vain to seduce the Bethulian widow.

She stands silently by Holofernes's bed, just before decapitating him. Her soul and her mind, in a last moment of anxiety, rise and whisper to each other in a deep inner agony.

Judith cuts off Holofernes's head with a knife hanging by his bed.

She returns to her city and exposes Holofernes's head on the city wall. All the inhabitants come to celebrate the victory and liberation, singing a canticle with Judith.

PRESS CLIPPING

Katarina Livljanic, in this demanding project, transforms this one hour long piece of musical theatre into a complete and total experience which one can follow very intensively in one breath.

Vjesnik (Croatia)

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CONCERTS

• January 24, 2010
UBC Recital Hall, Vancouver, Canada
Early Music Vancouver
Programme: Barlam & Josaphat
www.earlymusic.bc.ca

• February 14, 2010
AMUZ, Antwerpen, Belgium
Programme: Dalmatica
www.amuz.be

• April 6, 2010
Masterclass Katarina Livljanic on Glagolitic chant, Irish World Academy of Music, University of Limerick, Ireland
www.ul.ie

• May 16, 2010
Europäischer Kultursommer Festival, Fellbach, Germany
Programme: Judith
www.kultursommer-fellbach.de

 

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