Part of the Grimebourn festival at the Arcola Theatre, this
is truly a show of two contrasting halves. In the first part, the audience are
treated to a rather melancholy and sombre interpretation of Pierrot Lunaire
that is difficult to understand.
Formed of a selection of 21 poems from Otto Erich
Hartleben’s German translation of Albert Giraud’s cycle of French poems,
Schoenberg’s melodrama doesn’t feel as though it has much purpose. This is
where Constella ballet and orchestra come in.
