Lemoine Movani Bruno - L'Autre Cote - Soli Choeur Orchestre - Ch & Piano

Summary of This Book

This book takes you close to the conception of "The Other Side," a fantastic opera nourished by the expressionist and nightmarish atmosphere of Alfred Kubin's novel. Through a rich and embodied note, François Regnault revisits the discovery of the original text, what struck him in this dark fable, and how the "Empire of the Dream" becomes an allegory as imaginary as it is terrifyingly political: the promise of an ideal, decay, a plunge into chaos, and the apocalypse of a crumbling world.

The narrative highlights the making of the libretto: how to choose an operatic subject without yielding to the ease of recycled myth or directly addressing current events, how to reduce and characterize the characters, and above all how to write so that the story remains clear when the words are meant to be sung. Regnault explains his construction method (Prologue, two acts, Epilogue), the interplay of correspondences between scenes, and how the imagination, the fantastic, and the metamorphoses of the novel call for a complete musical treatment.

In parallel, the press section places the work within its scenic and musical dynamics: Bruno Mantovani aims for a perpetual movement of collapse, driven by a "large and brilliant" orchestra where the percussion expands the sound space, by a central choir (a writhing, versatile, and unsettling mass), and by solo roles organized around the narrator Alfred Kubin. An ideal content to understand the mechanisms of a contemporary opera, refine one's listening, and enter the aesthetic of an intensely dramatic musical theatre.

Technical specifications

Musical Genre

Opera

Publication

Sheet music

Composer	Bruno Mantovani	Genre	fantastic opera
Instrumentation	orchestra, choir, and soloists (including six percussionists)