La victoire de Guernica

Pablo Picasso’s mural Guernica (1937) is a powerful anti-war memorial. Luigi Nono’s cantata La Victoire de Guernica, based on Paul Eluard’s poem of the same name, was inspired by Picasso’s painting and shares its emotional intensity, reflecting Nono‘s belief in the importance of political expression in art. The sung and spoken text presents a poetic sequence of images depicting the events in Guernica and the hope for victory over fascism. The composer, who would have been 100 years old this year, also takes up this character in the formal and musical aspects of his work