"Serenata: Nighttime noise" (definition by Boisrobert 1646)

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Creating a face-off

We wish to show the encounter of three worlds:

The mythological symbolism of Alexander the Great’s Macedonia, using the imagery in the great myths to show visually how universal the search for happiness is and the different philosophical themes in the opera.

Then, we will show the young Mozart’s baroque liveliness, through the music as the emotional vector, but also through references to the grotesque and baroque, whether in paintings or architecture.

There is also the world of video games, mangas, and futurism in our generation today, with a great number of robots, superpowers, and extracts from cartoons or game landscape layouts – all these influences will be portrayed on stage and in the costumes, transposed into scenic reality.

There will be three different codifications, seen through the eyes of those of us who are in their thirties and were brought up on Casimir, the Transformers, Mario Bros, and the Space Invaders or Bioman.

I aim to stage the different quests for power and Love. It is a question of choosing the right path to succeed in one’s mission and reach the princess. All these aims are universal, both collective and personal.

I aim to make the virtual game real on the stage of a theatre, with strong images but also its systematic rules and regulations, its obstacles and gratifications, to express the surrealism and the exemplarity of the characters, leaving the music to express their humanity.

By using and mechanizing the imagery and the system of the games of the eighties and the nineties, we will magnify reality and show the threats and obstacles, both political and emotional – This whole imagery under the amused ironical eye and the ardor of the young 19-year-old Mozart.

Il Re Pastore is a serenata. Boisrobert is defined as ‘a night-time racket’.