专辑简介

Inspired by Michelangelo’s sketches for the large-scale but never completed fresco The Battle of Cascina, Michelangelo Drawing Blood explores the musical and aesthetic world of the renowned renaissance artist. Taking Michelangelo’s sketches as a starting point, the music and libretto explore all aspects of the creation of the unfinished mural, including the artist’s daily life, the religious environment that surrounded him, the artistic techniques he employed and finally, the subject matter of what was to be the work’s focal point: a group of bathing Florentine soldiers surprised by the attacking Pisan army.