Battistelli: L’imbalsamatore

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L'Imbalsamatore is built around the imaginary character of the chief embalmer of the Lenin mausoleum in Moscow, Alexey Miscin, whose job is to keep the body of the first Soviet leader looking... — The Guardian, 16th January 2014, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 9th Nov 2013
Catalogue No: STR33966
Label: Stradivarius
Length: 70 minutes

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Battistelli: L’imbalsamatore

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Riccardo Massai
Icarus Ensemble
Marco Angius

Quante volte ve lo devo ripetere

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Limpido lucente nettare

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Irina!

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Glazunov

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Lo vedi? I vantaggi della liberalizzazione

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Ecco la siringa

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Eh gia...

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Sono un poeta

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Non male

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'L’imbalsamatore' (2001-2002) was first performed at the Almeida Theatre in London with the title 'The Embalmer'. As a genre, it recalls his previous works 'Aphrodite' ( 1983) and 'Frau Frankenstein' (1997-98), although here we find an actor as the exclusive protagonist. The unprecedented and reckless ensemble is composed by woodwinds and dark brasses, a vast set of percussion, a midi keyboard, cellos, double basses and elaborations with live electronics. Giorgio Battistelli continues to renew (and to shake) contemporary musical theatre. From the outset with the famous 'Experimentum Mundi', Battistelli has accepted and surpassed the legacy of Stockhausen and of certain post-modernist orientations of Kagel, aiming at a theatre which lives and burns in the very moment, although organised into rigorous and recognisable formal structures.

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16th January 2014

L'Imbalsamatore is built around the imaginary character of the chief embalmer of the Lenin mausoleum in Moscow, Alexey Miscin, whose job is to keep the body of the first Soviet leader looking presentable...Miscin's monologue is a surreal stream-of-consciousness in which the political and personal collide – he gradually becomes absorbed into the persona of Lenin himself.

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