Complex and full of metamorphoses, Katarina Livljanic’s interpretation of this story, rooted in the Dalmatian Renaissance, transforms a Biblical narration into a theatrical experience, woven around characters who have emerged from the text to become profoundly human and alive for us today.
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Summary
Judith enters the gate of the city and asks the guards to introduce her to Holofernes.
The great warrior sees her, deeply struck by her beauty. He invites Judith to his court and prepares a big feast. Drunken, he falls asleep on his bed, hoping in vain to seduce the Bethulian widow.
She stands silently by Holofernes's bed, just before decapitating him. Her soul and her mind, in a last moment of anxiety, rise and whisper to each other in a deep inner agony.
Judith cuts off Holofernes's head with a knife hanging by his bed.
She returns to her city and exposes Holofernes's head on the city wall. All the inhabitants come to celebrate the victory and liberation, singing a canticle with Judith.
Katarina Livljanic, in this demanding project, transforms this one hour long piece of musical theatre into a complete and total experience which one can follow very intensively in one breath.
Vjesnik (Croatia)
• 9 September 2010
Celebration of the millennium of the Solesmes Abbey
Programme: Laudis vox et organi
Eglise Notre Dame de Sablé-sur-Sarthe, France
www.abbayedesolesmes.fr
• 18 September 2010
Festival Kultursommer, Speyer, Germany
Programme: Abbo Abbas
www.vokalmusik-romanische-strasse.de
• 2 October 2010
Muziekcentrum De Bijloke, Gent, Belgium
Programme: Barlaam & Josaphat
www.debijloke.be
• 7 October 2010
Flanders Festival - Mechelen, Geel, Belgium
Programme: Barlaam & Josaphat
www.festivalmechelen.be
• 3, 5, 6 November 2010
Lincoln Center, White Light Festival, New York, USA
Programme: Judith
new.lincolncenter.org