Editorial Mondigromax
Darrer missatge
Darrer missatge (Last Message)
Mario G. Cortizo
Chamber opera for mezzosoprano and percussion
Music Mario G. Cortizo
Libretto Marc Rosich
Year of composition 2020
Duration 20 mins.
Language Catalan
A production of Òpera de Butxaca i Nova Creació – ÒBNC, coproduction with Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona
Online streamed premiere on November 15 to 22, 2020
Live premiere planned on July 12 & 13, 2023, Ateneu Barcelonès, Barcelona, within the frame of GREC’23 Festival de Barcelona
Mario G. Cortizo and Marc Rosich have written a piece about a teenage YouTuber who’s getting ready to send her followers a final message before the world comes to an end.
This piece should have premièred at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in the autumn of 2020, but the restrictions imposed due to the pandemic meant that it could only be streamed. It is part of Sis Solos Soles, an Opera de Butxaca i Nova Creació (ÒBNC) project which unites six monodramas for female voice and instrumentalist into a single performance. It was commissioned from six different librettist-composer teams. While exploring the bowels of a theatre, the audience should discover, through a sort of intimate confession, the tales underlying the different voices which are trapped in their respective home environments.
Score Darrer missatge. 19 pages. Editorial Mondigromax
Darrer missatge
Artistic direction Marc Rosich
Conductor Francesc Prat
Mezzosoprano Elena Tarrats
Percussion Mario G. Cortizo
Stage design and lighting Laura Clos ‘Closca’
Costumes and make-up Núria Llunell
Assistant to the director Jordi Pérez Solé
Cortizo’s style differs considerably from that of the rest of the authors, with a basically tonal language and without prejudices when it comes to developing melodic phrases that Tarrats knows how to take advantage of. The percussion accompaniment, magnificently interpreted by its author, is of considerable richness and imagination, flirting with pop elements and grooves that recall the style of a composer like Rosalía. Antoni Colomer, Ópera Actual
