A singing and dancing crab, a heartbroken poet, and a burlesque queen. They might seem like the protagonists of a surreal fairy tale or the opening lines of a joke, but they are actually the creatures that inhabit "Incanto – Atlas of Fantastic Worlds," Valerio Scanu's new musical, performing in Rome on December 11th at the Teatro Orione at 9:00 PM.
Three very different characters, but united by a curious detail: the one who gives them voice, in a theatrical game that intertwines quick-change, irony, and vocal virtuosity, is always him: Scanu.
A universe comes to life on stage that defies logic and embraces the imagination, where music becomes a compass to navigate unlikely encounters and suspended atmospheres.
The 30-year-old singer from Maddalena, winner of the 2010 Sanremo Music Festival, constructs a tale of continuous metamorphoses, in which the boundary between reality and fairy tale dissolves to make room for an emotional, luminous, at times melancholic, and always surprising narrative.
The result is an evocative show, a theatrical journey that aims to leave the viewer with the feeling of having witnessed something unique. An experience, in short, that, as the artist promises, "cannot be explained, but cannot be forgotten either."