Title                                                                    Instrumentation                                      Duration                      Year
Il fait nuit                                                               piano                                                         6′ circa                          2018

Il fait nuit, Night is falling, in English, is a work for solo piano.
The piece takes inspiration from Edmond Rostand’s play Cyrano de Bergerac. The title, in fact, is a small literal quotation from one of the most intense moments of the whole play, and more precisely from the last act. How can you read at present? Night is falling is the complete quotation of the text, and these words are spoken by Roxanne in the instant in which she realized that Cyrano is not actually reading Christian’s last letter, but he’s reciting the words by heart. After that, nothing is going to be the same. Roxanne rewinds all the previous events and reads them from a new perspective, a new point of view. Everything is changed now, but it’s too late.
The reflection between this before and after, the re-reading of the events under a new light, is a race against time, unfortunately useless. These are the main elements that gave birth to the piece.
Through the use of well defined and well recognizable thematic and gestural elements – that each time they are repurposed, they appear somehow modified, hybridized and sometimes exasperated and even distorted – the piece tries to retrace the mood of the two main characters that, in their minds, relive through flashbacks their past – perceiving the events differently – but time is running out and it is too late for a happy ending.