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Rai News, Fabio Cappelli
Rai Italia, Maria Carfora
(Massimo Bernardini, Huffington Post)
Just over 70′ of superbly crafted music for soloists, choir, children’s voices and small orchestra; of absolute, but very conscious, linguistic freedom; of warm, direct, harsh and affectionate singing; of skilful and often poignant polyphony. A contemporary musical theatre that engages and disturbs’.
Paola De Simone, Connessi all’opera
‘The engine of it all, and one realises this immediately, is in the pentagram. In the delicate and dazzling writing of Silvia Colasanti, who with robust artistry and subtle sensitivity narrates, describes and delves into the folds of the soul, following the many different footsteps left by history, in techniques and metrics, in forms and themes, in timbres and dynamics.’
Dino Villatico, Il Manifesto
‘Music attempts new paths, which are neither a repetition of formulas of the concluded avant-gardes, nor the restoration of exhausted systems. It also looks back, certainly, but treasuring the disruptive work of the avant-gardes, and it ventures to seek a new system of musical declension of the theatre, which is neither corny simplicity nor abstruse complication.’
https://ilmanifesto.it/dallafrica-alleuropa-favole-nere-dalle-mille-e-una-notte
Luca Fialdini, Operaclick
‘Theatre does not hide what it is made of: to write music and deal with musical theatre after four hundred years of Western tradition is to stand on the shoulders of those giants who still cast their shadows over our works. It is impossible not to take this into account and in Silvi Colasanti’s proposal, the memory of the past is the solid foundation of a musical theatre of one’s own’.
https://www.operaclick.com/recensioni/teatrale/roma-teatro-nazionale-lultimo-viaggio-di-sindbad
(Mauro Mariani, Giornale della Musica)
‘Sindbad’s Last Journey‘ sets to music and brings to the stage without pietistic sentimentality but in a touching and poetic (let me use this old-fashioned adjective) way these stories of individuals and an entire community. All the spectators, who filled the stalls of the Teatro Nazionale and inevitably had to have the most diverse political views, understood this and followed in attentive silence the hour and a quarter of this musical tale, to applaud at the end with a special intensity and warmth. ‘
Marina Valensise, Le Salon Musical
‘A voyage by sea, a voyage of hope, a voyage into our consciousness, a timeless fable, the allegory of a contemporary tragedy, an innovative work that condenses the best of the madrigal tradition to innervate it in an innovative, calm experimentation, master of its own means and ambition.’
Sonia Remoli, E ora teatro
‘Un momento di intensa bellezza.
Un invito “a sentire”, oltre che a capire.’
Lorenzo Pompeo, Left
‘The author, who on several occasions has demonstrated her perfect mastery of the language of contemporary music, weaves a refined sound fabric at the service of the stage machine.
Different cultural and musical traditions converge and intertwine in the story, which Colasanti has admirably merged within an orchestration rich in sound cues, timbres and tones also from different musical traditions.’
https://left.it/2024/10/18/lodissea-di-sindbad-e-quella-dei-migranti-di-oggi
Stefano Miliani, Giornale dello Spettacolo
‘Silvia Colasanti deploys subtleties and melancholies in a contemporary music that is listened to with gusto, you can hear how the composer loves predecessors like Britten. In one hour, the score touches several registers, it knows how to move, in the sonorities and vocalities it draws the drama, the hope, the fear, the dream of these migrants, in the finale with the children’s song it touches or rather touches that sublime and poignant sweetness achieved years ago with her opera Minotauro. ‘
Loredana Margheriti, Progetto Italia News
An incredibly emotional and moving 70-minute one-act play to which we wish all the success it deserves.
Ippolita Papale, Inside the Show
‘It would seem that composing an opera today is possible. I mean that it is possible to create a 7-picture musical tale drawn from current events and deeply meaningful on an intimate level. Here is with a sound layer that activates the musical DNA we are made of by chasing out skin-cracking intellectualisms. There is a vocality that cautiously mixes lyrical, spoken word and natural singing.’
https://www.insidetheshow.it/482201_lultimo-viaggio-di-sindbad-al-teatro-dellopera-di-roma/
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