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De la Parra, who has conducted more than 100
orchestras including the London Philharmonic and the Orchestre
de Paris, embraces a new format with "The Silence of Sound", and
puts musicians on stage rather than in the pit.
Through classical pieces, the orchestra plays a key role in the
story-telling as the clown searches for fulfilment.
"The stories we tell in this show are just some out of the many
possible stories one can come up with when listening to
classical music," de la Parra told Reuters.
"We hope to reach a larger audience so that they fall in love
with the orchestra, and also to give some comfort, dreams,
imagination and art in this difficult period of time that we are
living in."
Alongside the music, Mexican clown performer Gabriela Muñoz, who
does not speak during the performance, interacts with visual
projections, such as birds in flight.
"My character is a character I’ve played for many years
already," she said.
"We place her in this situation where she goes on a visual,
melodical and emotional journey to find herself in tune with the
music, or really, to find her inner music that allows her to
dance to her own rhythm like we’re all capable of doing."
De la Parra's music selection includes pieces by Claude Debussy,
Sergei Prokofiev and Igor Stravinsky among others.
"I wanted to have very contrasting works, one after the other,
that could be a very beautiful sample as an introduction to the
orchestra of pieces that anybody can fall in love with
immediately," she said.
The two women have been working on the project for six years,
more recently overcoming issues made difficult by the COVID-19
pandemic.
Muñoz only just recently performed alongside the GIO Symphonia
orchestra ahead of a preview in front of an audience in Girona,
Spain last week.
"The time we're living and going through this pandemic makes it
even more relevant...to remind (ourselves) how important it is
to go through emotional journeys, to continue sharing," Muñoz
said.
"The Silence of Sound" will premiere in Mexico in July. De la
Parra plans Mexican and European tours afterward.
(Reporting by Marie-Louise Gumuchian; Editing by Mark Heinrich)
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