Minotauro

Minotauro: apontamento para um recomeço is an operatic episode that proposes the deconstruction of the myth of the Minotaur, loosely inspired by the versions by Jorge de Sena and Jorge Luís Borges. Voices are given not only to the Minotaur itself but to different consciousnesses and imaginations that may exist within it. Its overall structure uses an alphanumeric coding as the complete skeleton of the work. For each scene, three distinct poetic fragments are used, which maintain thematic coherence among themselves, all authored by Jim Morrison (translated by the author).

The structure of the movements is governed by a temporal coding, built from various cryptographic processes from the aforementioned texts, which are divided, separated, clustered, superimposed, augmented, and reduced in different sections, considering their length in terms of the number of letters in their verses, words, and syllables. Scene 1 and Scene 3 also function as a small palindrome, where the first scene has a continuous crescendo with motives of two, and then three notes, always ascending. The third scene presents the inverse, starting with motives of three notes in a descending direction, here in decrescendo as opposed to the first scene. Finally, the first two notes used throughout Scene 1 are “A” and “B”, the latter translating to “B” in English, and hence “LaB”[yrinth].