A work on detail, using a single aria to draw out a theatrical tale that of just this musical part of the opera makes it a new story. From “the usual story of the shepherd, ” from F. Cilea’s Arlesiana (Il lamento di Federico) to a new story then, the entire stage development is in fact designed for a single aria. So as to make the hands of a pianist the only image seen within the large theatrical stage space, in which it seems to get lost but at the same time turns out to be the only light that emerges, where the voice of singing is only heard, so that the only voice can become a presence, and an actress, interprets on practicable placed offstage, close to the stalls, the new story that comes precisely, off

Director: Luca Mazzei
Text processing: Alice Valente Visco, Laura Nicotera, Angela Rosa D’Auria, Luca Mazzei
Set design: Bianca Renzi, Claudia Donato
Pianist: Antonio Materazzo
Tenor: Luca Mazzei
Actress: Angela Rosa D’Auria
Child: Mariapia Paone