The initial collaboration between composer Marcelo Delgado and Emilio García Wehbi, Sin Voces (No voices) marks the foundation of what will become an over-a-decade long close teamwork in the field of opera or music theater. A conceptual alien status to the genre -neither opera nor theater-, an entangling dialogue between musical composition and staging, and the breaking of traditional codes, have allowed the duo to develop differently natured stagings, but all sharing the same premises. In Sin Voices, singers don’t sing and actors don’t act. Both singers and actors offer their bodies and voices to a kind of blasphemous biblical ritual to recover fragments of the lost memory of a cannibal society, one that has been endlessly gobbling itself up throughout history. Two crossing stories, those of Cain and Abel, but crossed to a degree where it becomes that of Abin and Cael. Metaphors of Argentine history and its factions, never hesitating to sacrifice the other and themselves, generation after generation.

With
LEANDRO AITA
MARICEL ALVAREZ
DARÍO FAINSTAIN
JUAN ALEJO GARCÍA
ROMÁN LAMAS
JAVIER LORENZO
ANDRÉS MUÑIZ
SILVIA PÉREZ
JORGE SÁNCHEZ

Orquestra
MARÍA DE LOS ANGELES ZANZI
GUILLERMO SÁNCHEZ
GUSTAVO FONTANA
MARIANO NARDINI
EZEQUIEL FINGER
FABIÁN KEOROGLANIAN
ELÍAS GUREVICH
DANIEL ROBUSCHI
SERGIO RIVAS

Libretto
ELENA VINELLI
Production
CETC
Assistant to the director
JAVIER SWEDSKY
Assistant to the set designer
JULIETA MARÍA POTENZE
Lighting
ALEJANDRO LE ROUX
Set
NORBERTO LAINO
Composition and musical conductor
MARCELO DELGADO
Régie
EMILIO GARCÍA WEHBI


Centro de Experimentación del Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1999.

Fotos Magdalena Viggiani