Núria Prims & Marta Puig
* This recital was initially announced for May 26, 2024. The same tickets will be valid.
Sala Domènech i Montaner – Sant Pau Recinte Modernista
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Núria Prims, actress
Marta Puig, pianist
Marc Busquets, stage concept and dramaturgy
With the participation of Rita Morais, soprano
Letters to a Young Poet
In 1978, when Victoria was asked on the BBC which book she would take to a desert island, she replied without hesitation: Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet. “Would you read it in German?” the interviewer asked. “I would love to know that much, but I have a version in German and Spanish,” she replied. Pianist Marta Puig, as part of her residency at LIFE Victoria 2023-24, proposes, together with Núria Prims, this dialogue between Rilke's poetry and music, with which the poet maintained a tumultuous relationship throughout his life. He began by denying it but ended up absolutely surrendering to this art after Busoni introduced him to it. A musical journey through the texts of the great poet.
Selection from 'Letters to a Young Poet' by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) and pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel (1690-1749), Franz Schubert (1797-1828) and Ferruccio Busoni (1866- 1924).
* Josep Maria Flotats, initially announced for this program, was ultimately unable to participate.
