Racconto Salvador Sebastiá

Racconto is a divertimento in four seamless parts that narrates from the process prior to a musical performance to the performance of a piece of music on stage. At the same time, it shows the three main functions of an Italian theatre: the creation of an enclosed space that allows one to travel to a specific time, space or action.

The work begins with an Introduction, like a time tunnel, which with the force of melodic incises, like bursts, transports us from the bustle of real life in the foyer of a theatre to the timeless world of a musical performance inside. Through a leitmotif that represents the stage-artists-emitter (high E flat), the stalls-audience-receiver (low D) and, in between, the artistic work-message (C). At the same time, the theme of "Cinema Paradiso" vaguely appears, a film which also uses the racconto as a narrative technique and an art, that of cinema, which is also cultivated in theatres.

Preludiando situates us in 1953, with two events: "Tres Sombreros de Copa" by Miguel de Mihura wins the National Theatre Prize thanks to an amateur theatre company. At the same time, another amateur organisation, the Sociedad Musical "La Artística" of Buñol inaugurated its Montecarlo Theatre. Two milestones of societies working selflessly for an illusion converge in the form of music.