Contraponto: Pierrot Lunaire by Arnold Schoenberg

By Ars ad Hoc

21h30 Main Room

12€ / Pentágono Card 6€ Ages 6+

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The Contraponto cycle at Theatro Circo welcomes ars ad hoc and soprano Ana Caseiro for a new interpretation of Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire op. 21 (1912), on a night when the audience will be on stage with the musicians. This seminal work of modernity established sprechgesang (spoken song) and the iconic ‘Pierrot quintet’, marking subsequent musical production. The piece, based on poems by Albert Giraud, is a sophisticated counterpoint exercise that explores timbral diversity with economy of means. Maintaining the principle of chamber music without a conductor, the concert will be subtitled. Preceding Schoenberg’s work, ars ad hoc performs the Adagio for clarinet, violin and piano, a transcription of the second movement of the Chamber Concerto that Alban Berg composed in 1925 as a tribute to his teacher, Arnold Schoenberg.

Contraponto is a cycle dedicated to 20th and 21st century composition, where we invite local, national and international ensembles and composers to guide us through the music of one of the most fertile periods in terms of new ideas and forms.

Programme
Alban Berg (1885 – 1935)
Adagio [1925, tr. 1935] for clarinets, violin and piano

Arnold Schönberg (1874 – 1951)
Pierrot Lunaire, op. 21 [1912] for voice, flutes, clarinets, violin/viola, cello and piano

Credits
Ana Caseiro soprano
Ricardo Carvalho flutes
Horácio Ferreira clarinets
Diogo Coelho violin/viola
Gonçalo Lélis cello
João Casimiro Almeida piano
Diana Ferreira subtitling and programming

Dst group is a patron of the Contraponto cycle.

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Soprano Ana Caseiro specialises in the interpretation of contemporary music. In 2022, she made her debut in Vienna and Budapest in the role of ‘Justine’ in the national premieres of J. Widmann’s opera Das Gesicht im Spiegel and has been performing in opera premieres worldwide. She studied singing at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel and the Kunstuniversität Graz with Ulf Bästlein and was a scholarship holder of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the GDA Foundation. She is currently in her final year of a master’s degree in Performative Practices in Contemporary Music with baritone Holger Falk and the Klangforum Wien ensemble.

Active since 2018, ars ad hoc is the chamber music group of Arte no Tempo (AnT). Focusing on contemporary music, it has developed artistic residencies and held regular concerts at the Serralves Foundation, in addition to other performances combining the interpretation of contemporary music with works from the great classical/romantic/modernist repertoire.