“Cybeline”. La reencarnación de la mujer contemporánea

Abstract

The work "Cybeline", by William Osborne, American composer, and Abbie Conant, trombonist, appears as a reaction to a discriminatory experience suffered by A. Conant for thirteen years in the Munich Philarmonic Orchestra when she was rejected as a trombone soloist, because she was a woman, in spite of having obtained this job after a public, competitive examination. "Cybeline" uses artistic hybridization in order to blend electro-acoustical music, musical theatre and opera, all of which joined to new audiovisual technologies. This story tells us about the life of a woman who, after having been raped and dismembered by a male psychopath, is then is turned into a cyborg by doctors and scientists, which erases all her feelings and memories. However, "Cybeline" will try to show us she is human and will give us the female vision of a present world ruled by new technologies.