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Satyricon is a chamber opera by Bruno Maderna with a libretto adapted by Ian Strasfogel and the composer from Petronius. It was written during Maderna's last illness in 1973 and premièred as part of the Holland Festival on March 16, 1976 in Scheveningen, Netherlands.
The work consists of 16 unordered numbers and the collage effect extends to the music, which relies heavily on pastiche. There are four singers, employing respectively English & German, French, wordless vocalise, and Latin: the host Trimalchio (tenor, doubling as the merchant Habinnas), his wife Fortunata (mezzo-soprano), Criside (Soprano), and Eumolpus (Bass). It is suggested that tape music may be used between scenes; the 2004 revival in Darmstadt included dialogue and a number of additional spoken roles.
Sources
- Fearn, Raymond. "Satyricon", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (accessed Feb. 26 2008), grovemusic.com (subscription access).
- Knessl, Lothar. 2001. "Zu Bruno Madernas Satyricon". In Stimme und Wort in der Musik des 20. Jahrhunderts, edited by Hartmut Krones. Wiener Schriften zur Stilkunde und Aufführungspraxis: Sonderreihe “Symposien zu Wien Modern” 1. Vienna: Böhlau, 2001. ISBN 320599387X
- Maderna, Bruno. 1992. Satyricon. Salambert SCD9101. Paul Sperry, Milagro Vargas, Liliana Oliveri, Aurio Tomicich, conducted by Sandro Gorli, Divertimento Ensemble.
- Maderna, Bruno. 2003. "Entretien à la radio hollandaise NOS après le Satyricon", French translation by Laurent Feneyrou. In Musique et dramaturgie: Esthétique de la représentation au XXe siècle, edited by Laurent Feneyrou, 595–98. Esthétique 7. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne. ISBN 2859444726. Originally published in Italian in Bruno Maderna: Documenti, edited by Mario Baroni, Rossana Dalmonte, and Francesca Magnani. Atti del Convegno Internazionale Bruno Maderna. Milan: Suvini Zerboni, 1985.
- Mathon, Geneviève. 1997. "Une esthétique de la fragmentation: Le Satyricon de Bruno Maderna". Les Cahiers du CIREM, nos. 40–41 (September): 166–70.
- Mathon, Geneviève. 2003. "À propos du Satyricon de Bruno Maderna". In Musique et dramaturgie: Esthétique de la représentation au XXe siècle, edited by Laurent Feneyrou, 571–93. Esthétique 7. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne. ISBN 2859444726
- Poel, Piet Hein van de. 2003. "Bruno Maderna sur le Satyricon: 'Pop art' en musique", translated by Rosalie Siblesz. In Musique et dramaturgie: Esthétique de la représentation au XXe siècle, edited by Laurent Feneyrou, 599–601. Esthétique 7. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne. ISBN 2859444726
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