BORDERS ARE OPEN
Quattro Pezzi Sacri sulla rotta Balcanica
The show was conceived out of the necessity to speak about the condition of mankind, and in particular, about certain man and women, in relation to the immensity of the sea and the indifference of humanity. The aim is to empower the testimonies of migrants, refugees who asked for asylum in the Greek and Turkish refugee camps during Covid-19 pandemic, and how they became hostages of the Turkey-Europe negotiations. Their voices turn into both religious and lay prayers, widely echoing to the stars.
The audience will wear wireless earphones while seated in the wonderful location of Piazza della Pace. Through sound spatialisation, the listeners will find imagining themselves on the Island of Lesbo, in the Moria field, or simply seated near someone who asks questions towards the sky, sharing the expectation for answers and the doubt, whether the visions evoked were true or the fruit of our mind.
The performance represents the fight of Man against the unknowable beyond death: three compositions dedicated to the Virgin Mary (to whom Verdi offers his life after death, though in doubt of afterlife) and one prayer to God, the Te Deum, concluding with a vain call for God through the voice of a soloist soprano, who seems to launch her own question to God, but without obtaining an answer.
Date
Piazza della Pace
Saturday 19 September 2020, 7.30 pm and 9.30 pm
Performers
Project Chronos3/Manuel Renga and Vittorio Borsari
Playwright Manuel Renga
Performers Valerio Ameli, Sara Dho, Antonio Panice
Tickets
Reservation is required – 40 seats available for each performance
Verdi Off in Safety
This special edition of Verdi Off has been conceived and realized in accordance with the safety and health normative for both audience and artists. At the entrance of every venue all participants will find sanitizing gel distributors, and they will be checked with a thermoscanner to monitor their body temperature. The audience is required to bring a mask, to avoid crowding and to respect the one-metre social distancing. The mask needs to be worn by covering both mouth and nose during access, exit and the whole duration of the performance. Before leaving the seats, we invite you to wait for the signal of our staff and their directions in order to avoid unwanted crowding. Reservations are necessary only when requested by following the instructions related to the single events. In order to reserve a seat, it is necessary to provide a telephone number or email address, which will remain stored for 14 days. Reservations are to be made under a single name (it is not allowed to reserve more seats under a unique name) and any nominal change has to be communicated to the ticket office in order to be valid. As the staff will be checking the correspondence between tickets headers and holders at the entrance of every show, please provide a valid identification document in a timely fashion.
