The Tempest, after the work of William Shakespeare

Serge Ayala, a director and actor inspired by commedia dell’ arte (an energetic 16th century Italian theater style), joins the Shakespearean actor Eliot Giuralarocca and the early music ensembles Le Tendre Amour and Quatricinia in an original production of The Tempest, reuniting Shakespeare’s text with its original music.
 

Music was integral to Shakespeare’s own original concept of a theatre performance, and in this case will accompany and guide the listener through the story. The text has been reunited with its forgotten melodies and the musicians use the very instruments that Shakespeare would have known and heard. Thanks to Shakespeare’s musical knowledge, a real symbiosis occurs between the text and the music.

Not only is The Tempest a romance full of magic, but also a stage for debates on authority and power that ring true still today. Questions of morality and fairness, misguided sympathies, unjustified slavery, and true love are at the heart of this play, and in lively 17th century spirit, the arts are reunited as music and theater are once again experienced as a whole.