Heiner Goebbels
Surrogate Cities
Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini
conductor Andrea Molino
vocals Aurore Ugolin and John De Leo
saxophones Alípio Carvalho Neto
composition, set and lighting design Heiner Goebbels
sound director Norbert Ommer
production Ravenna Festival
in collaboration with Teatro Alighieri
Heiner Goebbels is one of the most important and original composers of our time, and one of the most influential theatre directors in Europe. Surrogate Cities is undoubtedly his best-known and most performed work, a modern epic that takes the form of an imposing yet extremely varied and multifaceted musical organism in which the listener can delve, wander and linger like a modern flaneur, caught up in dizzying sonic ambushes and visions of shocking modernity. “My intention was not to produce a close-up but to try and read the city as a text and then to translate something of its mechanics and architecture into music. I construct something that confronts the audience and the audience reacts to it, discovering in the music a space they can enter complete with their associations and ideas”.
