Stravinsky wrote the
“Histoire du Soldat” in Switzerland in times of poverty and starvation when the
World War 1 broke out in 1917.
Since the whole idea was to make some money in
villages, Stravinsky couldn’t write a ballet or an opera. He had to write on a
small scale.
Nevertheless, L’histoire du soldat remains one
of Stravinsky’s best-loved pieces, whether performed as a drama, a concert
suite, or a trio.
And this time in Baku at the MAP Festival in
Yarat it was a mix of the Shadow play (theatre), ballet, a small septet concert
directed by Yalchin Adigozalov with the storyteller accompanying the play from
beginning to end.
Music. Art. Performance Festival. Stravinski’s “L’Histoire Du Soldat” (conductor Yalchin Adigozalov).
