Disdemona

✩ 7 – 8 – 9 – 10 October 2025 | Lenz Theater

Disdemona

Performative creation, visual, sound for Festival Value 2025
And Giuseppe Verdi, William Shakespeare, Simone Weil
Dramaturgy, imagoturgy Francesco Pititto
Composition, installation, wrappers Maria Federica Masters
Sound processing Andrew Azzali
Music consultancy Adrian Engelbrecht
Interpreters Valentina Barbarini, Giulia Costantini soprano, Lorenzo Marchi tenor
Movers Tiziana Chapel, Giuseppina Cattani, Silvia Cleonice, Fabrizia Dalco, Nicole Dayanna Gonzalez, OLHA LOPATYNSKA, Ivana Manferlli, Giada Michelle Mbock, Valeria Moscardino, Elena Nunziata, Agatha Pelosi, Carlotta Spaggiari
Production REGIO_Festival Verdi Theater

Born under a bad star.
After all
Let it be a she -wolf_comunist
and not agnella_crista, at least
in the final force of his
Ah.

Otello by Giuseppe Verdi on the booklet by Arrigo Boito, Taken from the homonymous tragedy of William Shakespeare. It is the penultimate work of Verdi, with which the composer returns to the Shakespearean themes that had no longer faced Macbeth's era (1847).

Dismona is the name of Shakespearean tradition, taken from the homonymous figure of the Otello; Shakespeare coined him based on Dismona, In turn, a literary product of the writer Giambattista Giraldi Cinzio for his Hecatommites (One hundred novels). From the character of Shakespeare takes its name Desdemona, A satellite from the planet Urano.

About the derivation of Disdemona, Cinzio probably baseed it on the ancient Greek δυσδαίμων (dysdaimon) o dysdenia (dysdaimonia, “misery”), with the meaning of “from adverse fate”, “unfortunate”, “unfortunate”, “born under a bad star”.

✩ INFO AND RESERVATIONS

7-9 October hours 20 | 8-10 October hours 19
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