MEDIATHEK

Fortuna Won’t Be Fauvel’s Match! is based on a gothic allegorical verse romance in which the central metaphor for moral decay and decadence is an ambitious horse/ass. The main character – Fauvel – is an incarnation of sin, irrationality, unreliability, dominance, flattery and reminds us on current leading political figures. Fortuna Won’t Be Fauvel’s Match! mocks human egotism, hedonism, hypocrisy and excesses of the governing classes, of secular as well as church rule, a society contaminated by sin and corruption. The ruling class is despotic and greedy, forgetting about the natural equality of people.This issue fascinates since it judges exploitations in the human society and poses the question if today, after 700 years, it is any easier to talk, or do we still whisper.    
 This choregie project is based on work by the composer Lojze Lebič – Fauvel '86, being at times expanded by compositions from the original medieval poem Roman de Fauvel, fragments from medieval ritual plays, literature and philosophical writings.
 
 The project goes back to the verse romance which revolves around a horse and was composed as a counterpoint to heroic poems written at the French court and preserved in various manuscripts under the title Roman (book) de Fauvel. It is one of the earliest music-scenic works whose complexity grants it an important place in the history of music, literature as well as visual art.