Re-edition 2025
from Oedipus the Tyrant and Mnemosyne by Friedrich Hölderlin
Dramaturgy, imagoturgy Francesco Pititto
Composition, installation, costumes Maria Federica Maestri
Music by Claudio Rocchetti, Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer Tiziana Cappella, Sandra Soncini
Technical care, lights Alice Scartapacchio
'As I count equally and as nothing I who live,' thus a verse by Hölderlin shows us the direction for a poetic score of disorientation and revelation: the meaning of our existence originates in overthrow and loss, is fulfilled in fall, is reborn in the toil of ascent.
Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, hence Hölderlin's Oedipus the Tyrant, is one of the vertices of the human spirit.
It is the tragedy of man who pushes his anxiety for knowledge into the darkness of fate, to discover the truth of human suffering, which calls into question every rule, every law, every power.
Hölderlin focuses his attention precisely on this: on the man who, driven by the anxiety of knowing the immeasurable, makes research his greatness, but also his downfall.
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