Un Giorno X

Libretto by: Roberto Cacciapaglia and Giada Manca da Villahermosa.

Video and Direction: Gabriele Amadori. 

Vocals: Gianna Nannini - Giuseppe Zambon - Giulia Olcese - Silvia Chiminelli. 

Vocal Ensemble under the direction of: Eros Negri.

String Ensemble under the direction of: Pierangelo Gelmini. 

Keyboards: Michele Fedrigotti.  Computer: Marco Zangirolami

 

LA STORIA DI ULISSE SI RIPETE IN OGNI UOMO by Dario Dal Corno.

The traveler comes from very far away, from an ancient age in which the mythical man invented poetry. The model for the Eternal Wanderer is Ulysse; and once again his story is closely wrapped around two motives, distinct and complementary, of the journey and the return.  As happens to all archetypes, through the centuries, for the artists whose duty is to stir ones consciousness on the things that man can only express through their behaviors.  Ulysse has assumed different meanings and values; but his reality does not exhaust itself, because the myth re-proposes a new truth every time it is retold. It may be that the eye of the Ciclope, the monster that devours everybody in his cave, is the television screen.  It may be that the deceptive seduction of the mermaids, from whom men are lead astray, are transformed into the obsessive formulas of advertising and rich ornaments in the window fronts. 

Circe’s potions, with which her victims are deprived of their human condition, are modern day drugs.  The opera UN GIORNO X ends: the past is nothing more than dust, and the traveler finds himself on a plane, outside of the world of the individuals like those of the dream.  The sunrises, and in the time of nature with her eternal cycles everything that has happened will repeat itself.  Like the story of Ulysse that repeats in every man.