Reviews

European Premiere: Paris (Centre Pompidou), October 18. 2006

"... L'attenzione forte alle tragedie umane diventa soggetto per i musicisti delle nuove generazioni. … Ora a Parigi, un'ora e mezza di opera-documento sui vincitori e i vinti (l'ultima parte ha per protagonisti i voci e volti di malati terminali segnata da una virata intensisissima e commossa della scrittura). ... In WINNERS l'aspetto più originale e appariscente era il gruppo dei sette percussionisti australiani, in dialogo con un'orchestra tradizionale … . Gli sciamani disciplinatissimi su strumenti enormi ritmavano con felice intuizione i testi proiettati sul velario-quinta: le riflessioni, cucite così, sembravano uscire da loro tamburi, antiche e assolute. Ed era affascinante lo scorrere veloce di immagini tagliate per scorci arditi, come flash di un video-game. Ma la narrazione – per scelta, probablimente, di cronaca fredda – non affrontava il canto: la parola era sempre parlata.
...E la scena ultima, indimenticabile, morale giovane dopo tante sciagure: un sorriso per tanti visi, vecchie e giovani, tante storie, lo schermo pieno. Eccoli i vincitori!" Carla Moreni, Il sole 24 ore



"Multikulti war die Herausforderung der Vergangenheit. Multimedia ist das Spielzeug der Gegenwart. In der Kulmination aller sinnlichen, ethnischen, kulturellen, geografischen, medialen und politischen Erfahrungen in einem einzigen Kunstwerk liegt hingegen die süße Versuchung der Zukunft. Einen Begriff gibt es für diese Synchronisation der intellektuellen und sinnlichen Wahrnehmungsebenen noch nicht. Der italienische Komponist Andrea Molino, das Projekt Fabrica Musica und die Dresdner Sinfoniker geben mit der Aufführung von Molinos Stück «Winners» jedoch schon einmal die Richtung vor. ...«Winners» hebt über lange Zeiträume die Distanz zwischen kulturellen und sozialen Brennpunkten auf. Molino hält Abkehr von einer zum Underground deklarierten Elite und führt sein Projekt an Orten auf, die von menschlichen Katastrophen heimgesucht wurden. ... Videos von den jeweiligen Orten werden bei den Performances eingespielt. Die globale Verlinkung einer künstlerisch sensuellen Erfahrung und der sozialen und geschichtlichen Wirklichkeit wurde noch nie auf ähnlich hohem Niveau praktiziert."
Wolfgang Kampmann



World Premiere Brisbane (Brisbane Festival), July 22, 2006

"... In a 2006 Brisbane Festival not lacking in visual splendour, the opening of Winners stakes a claim as the most thrilling spectacle of all. Behind a scrim that serves as a screen for multimedia text and visual projection, and with the full-strength Queensland Orchestra amplified and splendidly lit, thet seven-member percussion ensemble TaikOz, on a platform above, goes hammer-and-tongs on a barrage of Japanese drums. ... It's breathtaking, sexy as hell... Despite the physical presence of the musicians and an emphatic, rhythmically charged original score, it's closer in spirit to the concurrent Earth Dialogues Summit than it is to Salome, the real impact being made not through sounds but via the haunted, terrified eyes of a terminally ill woman trying to make sense of her fate at the end. ... That it exists at all is a miracle, and testament to the vision and determination of Italian composer-conductor Andrea Molino, Brisbane Festival director Lyndon Terracini, and their worldwide team of location-supervisors..." Martin Buzacott, Courier Mail, 24.7.2006



"In Winners, one of Lyndon Terracini’s goals of bringing art to the street flipped around and the whole world was brought into the concert hall. Conceived and composed by Andrea Molino of Fabrica in Italy, Winners tells the stories of survivors from around the world who witnessed cataclysmic events—wars, massacres, riots, nuclear testing. In a single visually arresting performance, their words and images were projected onto a scrim behind which the Queensland Orchestra played with the TaikOz drummers." Adair Jones, Artshub Australia, 2.8.06