“La selva interior is the interior view of an emotional extreme that is expressed with a maximum of sensual intensity. Marcelo Toledo’s grasp on the Man of Sorrows Quiroga serves as a standard for the future of musical theatre.”
La Selva Interior
The premiere of the complete version La selva interior (The Jungle Within)
KNM Berlin and Neue Vocalsolisten at the Ultraschall Festival 2010.
La Selva Interior (The Jungle Within) is an opera based on the life and work of literary legend Horacio Quiroga.
La Selva Interior embodies Marcelo Toledo's style which is like a jungle landscape - intricate and full of details. The score, written with an incredible level of resolution, contains all the nuances for its interpretation and demands from the musicians the command of not only new instrumental techniques that are already part of the repertoire but also many more that are part of Toledo’s extremely personal music world. In many instances Toledo reinvents the way of playing the instruments, and these new techniques produce a strong and consistent language made out of fluxes of sounds and noises of an astonishing beauty and effectiveness.