Editorial Mondigromax
No és res urgent
No és res urgent (It’s not urgent)
Agustí Charles
No és res urgent (It’s not urgent)
Micro opera for soprano and amplified violin
Music Agustí Charles
Libretto Marc Rosich
Year of composition 2017-2018
Duration 24 mins.
Language Catalan
A production of Òpera de Butxaca i Nova Creació – ÒBNC, coproduction with Gran Teatre del Liceu
Online streamed premiere on November 15 to 22, 2020. Covid Victim.
Live premiere on September 28, 2022 Ateneu Barcelonès, Barcelona
The duo Agustí Charles – Marc Rosich sign an opera for soprano and violin accompaniment, that follows a storyline similar to La voix humaine by Francis Poulenc: a woman waiting for a call from her lover does not dare to leave the house for fear of being left without cover. She keeps leaving messages for her lover to answer her calls, but she is unable to leave the house. She remains motionless. She is afraid that he will call her just when she is going down the elevator, where there is no coverage, or by the stairs, where there is also a floor where the connection is lost.
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 Òpera 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 No és res urgent. 51 pages. Editorial Mondigromax
No és res urgent
Soprano María Hinojosa
Violin Marc Charles
Music director Francesc Prat
Stage director Marc Rosich
Stage design and lighting Laura Clos ‘Closca’
Costumes and make-up Núria Llunell
Assistant to the director Jordi Pérez Solé