Ouverture
- direction e coreography Gaetano Palermo, Michele Petrosino
- music composition Fernando Strasnoy
- libretto Giuliana Kiersz
- translation libretto Teresa Vila
- with Maria Clara Maiztegui, Maria Giuliana Seguino, Dominika Isabell Marková, Xiaofei Liu, Daniel Wendler
- assistant director Sofia Del Zozzo
- light design Gaetano Palermo e Nicola Notari
- organization Arianna Di Bello
- administration Monica Maggio
- coproduction Festival Aperto / Fondazione I Teatri di Reggio Emilia, Teatro Regio di Parma – Progetto “Gradus. Passaggi per il nuovo” di Reggio Parma Festival
- 50’
Ouverture is an a cappella performance piece for a double quintet — five singers and five treadmills. Set in a threshold-like space-time, the work explores the performative tension that precedes the event — both of the show and of life itself. The preparations and rituals of opera intertwine with those of sports and wellness practices, in search of a wellbeing, or a form, that is always still to come. Reality and fiction thus converge in the voices of the singer-performers, questioning the horizons, escape routes, and gazes that shape contemporary life.
Ouverture is an a cappella performance piece for a double quintet — five singers and five treadmills. Set in a threshold-like space-time, the work explores the performative tension that precedes the event — both of the show and of life itself. The preparations and rituals of opera intertwine with those of sports and wellness practices, in search of a wellbeing, or a form, that is always still to come. Reality and fiction thus converge in the voices of the singer-performers, questioning the horizons, escape routes, and gazes that shape contemporary life.