Librettist: Nuno Côrte-Real
Libretto based on a compilation of texts by various poets
Chamber opera
Date: 2007
Language: Portuguese
Duration: 38 minutes
Small-scale
Deusa: soprano
Pastora: soprano
Marânus: baritone
Narrador: speaker/baritone
Almost mythological, A Montanha rises, in its inner tone (that is, sound), from a desire for a profound transformation in the way of living, grounded in a return to Nature and in a universal ethical and loving communion among human beings.
Using the poetry of Pascoaes as its structural foundation (drawn mainly from the poem “Marânus“), it also draws on the lyricism of Camões and Pessoa, among others, all converging in the humanistic and spiritual vision of Agostinho da Silva: to create beauty, to love humankind, and to praise God.
“The world always ends up doing what poets dreamed.”
2 Fl (Picc/Afl) | Ob (Eh) | Cl (Ebcl/Bcl) | Bsn (Cbsn) | Hn | Tpt | Tbn | 4 Perc | Hp | Pf | Cel | Vln | Vla | Vc | Cb
Date: 2007
Venue: Great Auditorium of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon
Commission: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation – Lisbon
Stage direction: Carlos Antunes
Music direction: Cesário Costa
Cast: Eduarda Melo, Teresa Gardner, Luís Rodrigues, Rui Baeta and OrchestrUtopica
