Name: Letters from Clara
Start: 2023-07-21T21:15:00
Location: Villa Marigola

Costanza Principe

Lerici Music Festival

Music was the foundation on which Clara Wieck’s relationship with her husband, Robert Schumann, was born and developed. Clara’s letters and diaries, allow us to reconstruct the evolution of that unique, unbreakable and controversial bond. In this performance, Clara’s reflections and music chase each other, recounting the complexity of their relationship; everything seems to find a mysterious synthesis and an unfathomable evolutionary path: on the one hand Clara’s success in Life, on the other her substantial posthumous oblivion, as well as her husband’s posthumous success. The relationship between Clara and Robert perhaps represents that mysterious dream space, within which Robert’s works and the remarkable legacy he left in the history of music came to life. Pianist Costanza Principe, brings back from semi-oblivion compositions of the young Clara; actress Sandra Ceccarelli will play Clara’s voice.