‎The Soldier’s Tale ‏is a staged music piece that Igor Stravinsky created based on ‎a ‎text by ‎Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz. The work was conceived in‏ ‏‎1917 while he was exiled ‎in ‎Switzerland during the Great War, and was devised for a small group of performers so it ‎could ‎easily be taken on tour like a small circus troupe. After Stravinsky’s great ballets, this ‎was to be a ‎forerunner of his neoclassical works such as ‎Pulcinella. Stravinsky explained that ‎his musical ‎ideas usually came to him whilst he was working, but this wasn’t the case with ‎the ‎The ‎Soldier’s Tale‏‎, where they came to him in dreams and he was very ‎pleased to be able to ‎remember them. ‎

‎The Soldier’s Tale‎‏‎, a Faustian tale par excellence, sees a soldier on leave making ‎a ‎critical choice: to sell his soul, represented by his violin, in exchange for a magic book that ‎would ‎allow him to know the future and become rich.‎‏ ‏A moral tale is spun around this ‎terrible ‎exchange that resonates strongly with our “always more” obsession in a society that ‎has ‎rendered us insatiable and where temptation is all around.‎

In this version, given a decidedly contemporary interpretation, three performers – dancers ‎and actors – give body and voice to the characters of this work. ‎‎ The Soldier’s Tale is ‎presented as the dream of a woman who finds herself facing a critical dilemma in her life. Her ‎therapist guides her in analysing a recurring dream where she is a soldier, to enable her to ‎confront her demons.‎

‎Production and performers ‎
Ferran Carvajal, artistic director and choreography
Albert Tola and Ferran Carvajal, dramatic composition and translation

Judit Farrés, Ariadna Montfort and Anna Serra, actors/dancers

Sarah Bels, violin
Albert Prat, double bass
Adrián Moscardó, trumpet
Noé Cantú, bassoon
Francesc Navarro, clarinet
Vicent Pérez, trombone
Joan Marc Pino, percussion

Roger Orra, set design and costumes
Marc Lleixà, lighting ‎
Judit Farrés, sound space
Fátima Campos, assistant director and choreography ‎
Cristina Raventós, executive producer ‎
Carlos Ruiz (Lainezworks), photography ‎
Giulia Grumi, assistant set design and costumes ‎
Guillem Pol, company sound technician ‎
Cristina C. Eujen, company lighting technician


‎Co-production: L’Auditori de Barcelona, Teatro Real Madrid and Thorus Arts‎