Event
Mythology of Naked Flesh
- Date: Sunday, 3 October 2021, 10-11am + 7-8pm AEST
- Venue: Live streaming event (online only) — National, Australia
- Series: This event is part of the Brisbane Music Festival 2021 series
- Tickets: Adults: $50 | Children: $20 | Concession: $30 — Tickets can be purchased online
Event Details
Strictly for adults only, this digital-only event is a musical exploration of sensuality, slowly over the course of the show transfiguring its sentiments to the erotic. Britten’s toe-tapping Cabaret Songs are imbued with an undercurrent of suggestion. Scriabin’s Towards the Flame ventures to less abstract territory – an incredible slow build of monstrous textural density. Ligeti’s Mysteries of the Macabre is an intensively athletic showpiece, derived from his bizarre and deeply sexually-charged opera ‘Le Grand Macabre’.
A new work from Melbourne-based composer Luke Paulding for actor and piano explores connections and fractures between sexuality, intimacy and ritual. The work utilises visceral physicality and subverted mannerisms inspired by pornography, fetish culture and queer performance art. The show crashes to finale with Raineri’s arrangement of the famous Dance of the Seven Veils.
Performers: Alex Raineri (piano) + Matthew Connell (actor)
Featured non-Australian music: Strauss (arr. Raineri) 'Dance of the Seven Veils', Britten 'Cabaret Songs', Scriabin 'Vers la flamme', Ligeti 'Mysteries of the Macabre'
Further information for this event is available online at the event's website or by email to brismusicfestival@gmail.com
Featured Australian Works
| beneath the mythology, his naked flesh (spoken voice with piano) by Luke Paulding — World premiere — performed by Luke Paulding and Matthew Connell |
Featured artists
- Performer Matthew Connell
- Performer Luke Paulding
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