Orgia, Hèctor Parra

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Image courtesy of Gran Teatre de Liceu.

Orgia is a co-commission and a new co-production between Teatro Arriaga of Bilbao, the Festival Castell de Peralada and the Gran Texºatre del Liceu that integrates many fascinating ingredients: on the one hand, the presentation of the latest lyrical score by Hèctor Parra, one of the Catalan composers with the most international renown. At his side, Calixto Bieito puts all his genius into dissecting the main characters in this tragic, self-destructive story in which we witness the intimate battle of a married couple.    

In this disturbing dramatic tale, the male lead hangs himself after experimenting with dressing as a woman. In the last moments of his life, he becomes aware of his homosexuality, and his suicide thus becomes an accusatory act. It  condemns a society that is intolerant, hypocritical, cruel and contemptuous of all those who live outside the established norms.  

Through his verses, Pasolini explores reality, illuminating how fascism annihilates all traces of humanity in modern society through consumer culture. In Orgia, love and sex are at the service of sadistic destruction. 

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