From Johann Wolfgang Goethe and Christoph Willibald Gluck
Translation, imagoturgy Francesco Pititto
Installation, direction, costumes Maria Federica Maestri
Performer Valentina Barbarini, Debora Tresanini (soprano), Eugenio Maria Degiacomi (basso)
Music Christoph Willibald Gluck
Composition and electronic musical reworking Andrea Azzali
This creation is a scenic-musical rewriting from the tragedy of Euripides and the late eighteenth-century work of Christoph Willibald Gluck.
The stage installation consists of a material altar ‘tender and cruel’ inspired by the organic works of Joseph Beuys while behind the scene an iconostasis portrays old deities silenced in the face of the massacre that is about to take place. No ceremony, no father to hate, no mother to desire, no past and no future, just an anonymous and bloody ‘on this side’. Like the mortally wounded doe, a generation without identity races to meet its tragic fate. Similar to the mangled body of Pierpaolo Pasolini, a princess destined for sacrifice, the innocence of the victim is a perennial monument to the horror of violence.
The work is performed by Valentina Barbarini, an actress repeatedly noted by critics for her powerful theatrical performances, Debora Tresanini, a young soprano student at the Arrigo Boito Conservatory in Parma and by bass Eugenio Maria Degiacomi.
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