Pierrot is looking for Richard(1/3)

Half a year ago I came back from preliminary audition to the Cadaques conducting competition.
The fact is that I didn’t enter the 1st round. The truth is that despite this fact, that was an important quest for me to discover Pierrot lunnaire which was the piece in this round. I am not a bit frustrated. Competitions are always hard and they are submissive to luck and circumstances. And the circumstances always differ from the atmosphere of a rehearsal for a concert.



Why Pierrot is looking for Richard?
In 1996, Al Pacino made a documentary about Richard the 3rd.he was searching for the meaning of Richard and his significance and relevance to our world. He was asking people in the street about their knowledge of this character. This gesture of exploring voyage influenced me in a deep way, which I have decided to go on my own quest.

I was looking for Pierrot and his meaning, symbol and reflection to our lives and ending in the music.

Who is Pierrot? Why Pierrot?

You can search in the web and you will find a lot of information about him (musically) and the (theatrically) commedia de`ll arte .but his role is somewhat known to quite a lot of us-the underdog.


He never puts on a mask. He is always hurt. He just powders his face. And why?

He is the antireflection to our hero phantasies.he is the anti hero.

Pierrot is the counter reflection of Siegfried, Manfred, Faust, Othello and others.
Siegfried signifies the death of the god. Pierrot signifies the death of Siegfried-humanism.
He does not set a new order into the world. He does not kill anyone in order to get a pardon for the eternal fame. He does not cry endlessly about a woman he will never have.
No one is actually able to make him more miserable than he already is.

He never had anything and never accomplished anything.

He is not equal to any others; he is a servant, a pincushion for verbal violences.abused. A weak character in the settings of life. The only freedom he has is in his mind, but then those are reflections of aggressions towards those who hurt him in anyway. Yet he does have every normal aspiration like the rest of people, for love, compation and recognition of his presence in a dignified way.

to be continued............