DIARIO DI UNA MADRE - Les 4 estacions de Sant Esteve de Palautorderac-Tardor

A project by Alberto Garcia Demestres, Cristina Pavarotti and the Festival Internacional Castell de Peralada. From the Festival de Peralada, premiered on July 26, with success by the public and critics, in the cycle "Les 4 Estacions de Sant Esteve de Palautordera".DIARI D'UNA MARE -Pages chosen- A cycle of 14 songs and 2 interludes for soprano, piano and photographs.Music: Alberto Garcia DemestresPoems: Cristina PavarottiPhotographs: May Zircus and Álvaro Rodriguez GalánDuration: approximately 75'Language: ItalianThe fourteen pages that make up the cycle, chosen/extracted from an imaginary diary, collect the thoughts that a mother directs to her daughter from pregnancy until her last days. Through this relationship, we see the daughter's consciousness grow, passing from being a small mammal carrier of mysteries to an adult woman, while the mother, sometimes, strips herself of her maternity to become a person again and be able to share her story with her daughter. The passage of time and its events are at the same time an opportunity and a limitation, carriers of conflict or of mutual recognition, and force the mother to an infinite balance between teaching and respect, liberation and warning, looking in the mirror and looking further in, suggesting eternity and contradicting it with its own finitude. This fragmented discourse, which tries to explain the necessary but never complete separation between mother and daughter, is expressed mainly in a simple and everyday language that sometimes turns towards drama, in frequency towards irony. The music, with a rhythm that alternates consonance and dissonance, lyrical impulses and urgent rhythms, transfigures it, elevates it and restores it in the unity of a circle. A circle drawn by the thread of a complex but eternal love.