Sound diptych, 2021
curated by Chiara Bertola
idea and project Mariateresa Sartori
direction Mariateresa Sartori
assistant director Armand Deladoey
musical composition Queste parole di colore oscuro by Paolo Marzocchi
The third canto of Dante Alighieri’s Inferno is at the centre of an experimental operation. To emphasise the intrinsic musicality of the Divine Comedy, Dante’s verses are stripped of their meaning, while syntax, metrics and rhyme remain unchanged. The result is something utterly incomprehensible but absurdly familiar. The actors recite the song as if it had its original meaning, inviting us to abandon ourselves to a purely rhythmic-melodic listening of the song. The reading by the actors is followed by Paolo Marzocchi’s piece ‘Queste parole di colore oscuro’ (These words of dark colour), which translates Dante’s text into purely musical terms on the basis of the prosody of the revised chant. The actors were always the same, while the musicians and conductors changed according to the location.
the actors from the left: Savino Liuzzi, Gustavo Frigerio, Elettra de Salvo, Pase Platform, Venezia, 2021
LINK TO THE ACTORS’ PERFORMACE: The Sound of Dante
link to the video Backstage de Il suono di Dante
Paolo Marzocchi
LINK TO THE MUSICAL COMPOSITION: Queste parole di colore oscuro
from the left: Elettra de Salvo, Gustavo Frigerio, Armand Deladoey, Savino Liuzzi
BERLINO, court of the Italian Embassy, Italian Institute of Culture of Berlin, 25th August, 2021, photos by Dario Jacopo Laganà
Musicians: Ruth Velten (Saxophon), Zoé Cartier (Violoncello), Sabrina Ma (percussions), director: Arno Waschk
VENEZIA, FONDAZIONE QUERINI STAMPALIA, 28th September 2021, photos by Katarina Rothfijel
gli attori Elettra de Salvo, Gustavo Frigerio, Savino Liuzzi
Musicisti: Paolo Bertoldo (percussioni), Massimiliano Donninelli (sassofono), Carlo Teodoro (violoncello), Direttore: Fabio Sperandio
MOSCOW, ELECTRO STANISLAWSKIJ THEATRE, with the Italian Institute of Culture of Moscow, 23rd, 24th October 2021,
photos by Maria Emelianova
Musicians: Arkadij Pikunov, saxophon, Aleksandra Kobrina, violoncello, Andrej Nikitin e Matrëna Sokolova, percussions
Director: Mary Čeminava
artistic director of the ensemble: Vladimir Tarnopol’ski
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Venice, 2021