Lella Costa and Ottavia Piccolo, but also Stefano Fresi, Luca Bizzarri, the musicologist Alberto Sanna with the Dolci Accenti ensemble, the Balletto di Roma, the Opus Ballet Company and the acrobatic performers of blucinQue.
Tempio Pausania's theater season, sponsored by CeDAC, focuses on new drama and choreography, music, and nouveau cirque. "A season for all tastes with leading names," emphasizes CeDAC artistic director Valeria Ciabattoni, "designed to appeal to different generations and audiences with an intriguing lineup."
Eleven titles are scheduled at the Teatro del Carmine from November to May, including an encore of “Coppelia,” the famous ballet inspired by a story by Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann and centered on a “mechanical doll.” Fabrizio Monteverde’s version will be performed by the Balletto di Roma, with direction and choreography by Caterina Mochi Sismondi by the blucinQue company.
Then there is Lella Costa, protagonist of “La Fata,” a brilliant and engaging monologue about the sole, enigmatic female figure from “The Adventures of Pinocchio,” and “Dioggene,” written and directed by Giacomo Battiato and starring Stefano Fresi, where the “Historia de Oddi, Bifolcho,” in thirteenth-century vernacular, gives way to the adventures of its author, the actor Nemesio Rea, who after an argument with his wife finds himself living in a barrel like the ancient philosopher. But also the intense female portrait of “Sissi the Empress,” with dramaturgy and direction by Roberto Cavosi and Federica Luna Vincenti in the role of Elisabeth of Bavaria, Ottavia Piccolo who interprets “Matteotti – Anatomy of a Fascism” by Stefano Massini, with music by Enrico Fink, performed by the Solisti dell'Orchestra Multietnica di Arezzo, and directed by Sandra Mangini, and “Spanish Stories of the Golden Age,” with a recital by Alberto Sanna and Dolci Accenti, dedicated to some of the most significant pages of the Renaissance and Baroque in music.
The lineup is rounded out by the nightmares of talented cartoonist Joe Black in “Field of Dreams” by Giampiero Rappa, who also directs it; “Nives – A Lifelong Phone Call,” based on the novel by Sacha Naspini, a theatrical project by Giorgio Zorcù with dramaturgy by Riccardo Fazi; “A Midsummer Night's Dream” by COB – Compagnia Opus Ballet, based on the play by William Shakespeare, with choreography by Davide Bombana and music by Felix Mendelssohn and Jóhann Jóhannsson; and “Our Women” by Eric Assous, starring Luca Bizzarri, Enzo Paci, and Antonio Zavatteri, directed by Alberto Giusta.
