The Jungle Within is a sonic and visual exploration of the ghosts, desires, and fears of a writer essential to the world that I belong to. The opera focuses on the last moments in the life of Horacio Quiroga at the Clinic Hospital of Buenos Aires where he waits five months for a prostate surgery.
In fleeting states that fluctuate between lucidity and convalescence, delirium and reality, the imagination, remembrances, and desires, the work explores the vertiginous inner jungle of a man who that day decides to leave this world.
Quiroga’s writing does not project the voluptuousness of the jungle with the use of dense rethoric, on the contrary, he reduces it by means of an outstanding austere style limited to esential elements. All its ominous voluptuousness, is presented in the characters of his short stories, in their complexities, their passions, their tragic lives.
Marcelo Toledo
In fleeting states that fluctuate between lucidity and convalescence, delirium and reality, the imagination, remembrances, and desires, the work explores the vertiginous inner jungle of a man who that day decides to leave this world.
Quiroga’s writing does not project the voluptuousness of the jungle with the use of dense rethoric, on the contrary, he reduces it by means of an outstanding austere style limited to esential elements. All its ominous voluptuousness, is presented in the characters of his short stories, in their complexities, their passions, their tragic lives.
Marcelo Toledo
La selva interior
The Jungle Within
Music Theater Work
Commission by CETC
(Colon Theater Experimental Center)
The Jungle Within
Music Theater Work
Commission by CETC
(Colon Theater Experimental Center)
Recording "Maraña Guitarra", New York Dec 2008
Rehearsal of "En la más ardua oscuridad" with KNM June 1st 2009
Theo Nabicht, bass cl. Ringela Riemke, cello & Frank Gutschmidt, piano
Theo Nabicht, bass cl. Ringela Riemke, cello & Frank Gutschmidt, piano
Photos: Sebastian Zitzlaff
Photos: Gabriela Pellegrini
Audio and Video: Victor Adan
Concierto Proyecto Resplandecencias
Noviembre 27 2009
Ex Biblioteca Nacional
Buenos Aires Argentina
Noviembre 27 2009
Ex Biblioteca Nacional
Buenos Aires Argentina
Maraña Resplandecencias
La cabeza de Goliat, David Nuñez, violín
Selva roja, Juliana Moreno, flauta baja Luis Conde, clarinete bajo
Aliento/Arrugas Juliana Moreno, flauta
Brut Nature, Luis Conde, Saxo barítono
Geometrías fugitivas, Trío Música Impura
Resplandecencias de la Nada, Proyecto Resplandecencias, Carlos Britez, director
