Towns Project

Bari - Corso Vittorio Emanuele, Lungomare, Piazza Ferrarese
Municipality of Bari
"San Nicola procession" (2000, 2001, 2002)
The most representative and biggest Feast, among the ones still alive in Mediterranean area, since three editions is conceived and proposed in form of parade, without changing tradition's contents, with a dramaturgy tied to the life of one of the greatest Saints ever lived.

Bari - Lungomare Crollalanza
Municipality of Bari
Feast of the Sea (1998-1999)
Great Concert for Earth, Air, Water and Fire, dedicated to the Mediterranean Sea, concluded by an imposing Fireworks Concert over the sea. Almost 500.000 people involved.

Bogotà (Colombia) - Plaza Bolivar
IberoAmericano Theatre Festival
About Angels and Light(2002)
The performance is a piece of a research-project dedicated to angels which have flew all over the world, with a special meaning for Bogotà, a message of peace to a town ruined by violence.

Bologna (Italy) - Piazza Maggiore
Municipality of Bologna
Like the moon- (2002)
Breaking of time in a midsummer night, dedicated to the moon. No compelling ways: people just following their own imaginary itinerary, among gentle visions, water's images, romantic music, poetry. A daydream while moon is glancing.

Bologna - Piazza Maggiore, via Rizzoli, via Indipendenza, Torri Garisenda, degli Asinelli, dell'Orologio
Comitato Bologna 2000
Feast for the end of the year as European Capital Town of Culture.
Sky dancing- (2002)
Passage through the new millennium dedicated to ideals, dreams, wishes for a better life; representing the ideal town, that appears among clouds every thousand years, to exalt, magnify and celebrate its spirit and vitality; letting the movement of a whole year, of all lives, of days and works become art, during 48 hours of feast and performances.
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Bologna - Piazza Maggiore
Comitato Bologna 2000
"Angels over Bologna" (1999)
Bologna European Capital of Culture year's opening: an open-air story for the last Sunday of Advent, for Christmas celebration
"The Last Angel" (2000)
Bologna European Capital Culture Town of Culture's year closing feast: work of ambiences' theatre to evocate the deep shiver of eternal, for Christmas celebration.
Co- production Bologna 2000, Il violino e la selce Festival of Fano.

Bologna (1991-1992)
Municipality of Bologna, Solidarity Committee for Slaughter's Victims
Antigone of towns - Antigones of earth
Ideation, project and production dedicated to the anniversary of the slaughter at Bologna's station (1980), all over the night between August 1st and 2nd in ten squares, not to forget.

Castellamare di Stabia - Lungomare
Municipality of Castellamare
"Earth of waters" (2001)
A performance to celebrate the New Year's Day, dedicated to the Mediterranean Sea, its culture, fascination and history.

Catania - Teatro Antico
Municipality of Catania
"Feast of Heaven" - (1997)
Realization of "Numberless Stars of Eighth Sphere", a performance for Teatro Antico's re-opening inspired to Leonardo da Vinci's Feast of Heaven. A Renaissance feast, placed in a very fascinating historic space, recovered to the town.

Catania - Via Etnea/Piazza Duomo
Municipality of Catania
Feast of Fire (1997-1998-1999)
A triennial project dedicated to Catania and Etna, its volcano, to celebrate the Feast of Time Passing, the New Year's day. A great performance in form of parade keeping the centre of town busy for several days, declining Fire's myth in all its meanings. As energy, as myth, as temptation, as power, as joy, as memory: wonders and monsters, bold acrobats and fearless fire's dancers, in a gigantic story shared by an enormous public, pored into the streets to celebrate together the new millennium.

Catania - crater of Etna
Municipality of Catania
Feast of Fire, press presentation (1999)
Lucio Dalla and Valerio Festi played some passages of Holderlin's "Empedocles' Death" for the reporters, in a kind of Dantesque atmosphere among volcano's vapours and fumes.

Churches and Basilicas of Italy, Europe, and America: Trinity Church of Houston (USA), San Carpoforo of Como (Italy), Santa Maria del Mar of Barcelona (Spain), Churches of Emmaus and Old Square of Prague (Czechoslovakia), Duomo of Ancona, San Marco of Milan (Italy).
International Institutions and Organizations
Medieval Mysteries (1980/1990)
Decennial project to rebuild the connection among music, scene, speech and architecture in Medieval Mystery.

Fano - Teatro della Fortuna
Municipality of Fano
Fortune's Allegory (1998)
For the re-opening of Teatro della Fortuna restored, a theatrical Feast in the square before the theatre, on the façade, on the tower, on windows and arches. Shot by national TV network.

Fano - Piazza del Duomo
Il violino e la Selce Festival
The Last Angel. An elegy for Lost Paradise" (2000)
Co-production with Festival of Spoleto, Bologna Capital Town of Culture 2000, and Il violino e la selce Festival of Fano.

Foligno - Piazza della Repubblica
I Segni Barocchi Festival
Fortune's Allegory (2001)
A performance to re-propose wonder and astonishment, revisited with a today's cultural feeling, at one of the most glamorous Baroque Festivals.
Like the Moon (2002)
An event-performance totally dedicated to the Moon, a "Flying Opera" with big machineries and a great conclusion of fire.

Genova - Piazza De Ferrari
Municipality of Genova
Travellers: visions of a festive night (New Year's Day 2001)
Story of a journey, dedicated to a maritime town, a Feast of Time for Genova next European Capital Town 2004.
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Houston (Texas, U.S.A.)
Foreign Office, Ministries of Tourism and Enterteinment
Italy in Houston (1985)
Italian tradition's performances and feasts: rebuilding of Leonardesque machines, Apulia's Luminarie, fireworks concerts; more than 500.000 people in a week.

Kobe (Japan) - Historic Centre
Town of Kobe, and partners
Feast of Spring (1999)
A "Sky Parade" crossing the heart of the town with 4 planets and aerial dances, involving more than 600.000 people.

Lecco - Piazza Cermenati and Lungolago
Municipality of Lecco
Farewell's visions - (2002)
A performance in "La Pietra e l'Acqua" Manzoni's festival. Suggestions, enchanted atmospheres over the lake, nineteenth-century iconography's big images, harmony between present and past.

1999 Lisbon (Portugal) - Praça do Comerço
Festival Dos Oceanos
Cosmogony (1999)
A big open sky story, a Concert for Elements, conceived to transform - for the short time of a Feast - the space where it takes place: great aerial machines, images' refractions over buildings and water's curtains, using the square's architecture as scenes and wings. The tale is a journey among the different interpretations of the Cosmos.

2000 Lisbon (Portugal) - Praça do Imperio
Festival Dos Oceanos
"Boda - Recordare" (2000)
Staging of a big feast, to celebrate the imaginary marriage between Brazil's Viceroy and the presumptive natural daughter of King Charles. A " Magnificent Entertainment", in the middle of which a white garden architecture, enriched with delicate arabesques - specular to the Royal Palace's façade-, symbolizes the entrance to "jardins de plaisirs", with its recurring arches; a fanciful architecture illuminated by hundreds of thousands lights, symbolizing a "Light's Great Theatre". A sumptuous parade, moving carts, for a Husband and Wife's Bridal Procession.
Celebrations with Baroque Big Circus and a Fireworks Concert.

Lisbon (Portugal) - Praça du Comerço
Festival Dos Oceanos
Casanova and the five senses (2001)
The story of Casanova -whose chronicles are still obscure- passing in Lisbon: sensual and secret town, open and unknown, harbour town of riches, town of secret and clear passions. For the occasion Casanova invents a fantastic party, dedicated to the Five Senses, living and taking place in the biggest square of the town, to celebrate the opening of Dos Oceanos Festival 2001.

Lyon (France) "La Chaise Dieu"
European Baroque Music Festival
Body and soul representation - (1994)
First modern representation of De Cavalieri's first opera.

Livorno
Municipality of Livorno

"Venice effect" - Piazza Repubblica
"Sun's light drove darkness away" (2002)
A performance to celebrate the Age of Enlightenment in Livorno, in occasion of Venice effect 's closing: words, images, through the ancient world's crisis toward modernity.

"Venice effect" - Padiglione, Darsena and Fortezza Vecchia
"Livorno Open Town" (2001)
An event dedicated to Ferdinando De Medici' s laws in Livorno, which -already in '600- let goods, peoples, cultures circulate free, opening Livorno's gates wide to whole Mediterranean Sea, with a touch of incredible modernity.

"Venice effect"- Piazza Repubblica and Fortezza Nuova
"Elements'Concert" (2000)
A performance of Ambiences' Art for Venice effect 's opening: four pictures dedicated to Air, Water, Earth and Fire: flight's machines, aerial choreographies, flying big spheres.
"Time rouses again" (2000)
A Summer Feast all over Venice Quarter's water paths, holding the same dawn of the dynamic plan of "Magnificent Celebrations", which from Lorenzo took name, lymph and project.
Time's allegory it is the inspiring subject chosen for festival 2000 closing.

Madrid (Spain) - Plaza Mayor
Espectacles Falstaff
Anniversary of the foundation of the town
About Angels and Light - (2000)
First act of Angels' Trilogy, sheltered in Plaza Mayor, in a big baroque Feast that filled with Angels the skies of Madrid, to remind and celebrate the foundation of the town.

Mantova - Piazza delle Erbe
Municipality of Mantova
Trilogy dedicated to Angels (1997, 1998, 1999)
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A story for the last night of the year, a magic night, in one of the historical most beautiful squares of Italy.
For the first time, Mantova celebrates its New Year's Day in a square three years running.
"About Angels and Night", in 1997; "Rebel Angels Fall", in 1998; and for the end of millennium, in 1999, "The last Angel", the story about Uriel standing guard to lost Paradise.

Menfi - Piazza Vittorio Emanuele, Via della Vittoria, Villa Varvaro
Municipality of Menfi and Cantine Settecolli
Dionysiac paths around five senses
Partecipation to Inycon Festival, dedicated to promote Menfi's territorial area, its traditions and its refined wines production, a series of performances-events, Dionysian journeys around pleasure, tied to town and district's history.

Milan - Piazza del Duomo
Municipality of Milan and partners
Winter Celebrations - Christmas, time of Feast (1993, 1994, 1995, 1996)
A new Christmas in Milan, dedicated to generosity. A project lasting four years, with installations in main places of town: labyrinth of grass; woods of Christmas trees; winter landscapes and a Grande Patinoire; theatrical and musical stories based on different subjects (Angels, Christmas carols), tales of images, different stages of tradition and invention.

Milan - Piazza del Duomo and environs
Municipality of Milan and partners
Winter Celebrations. Carnival
An excess of Carnival (1994)
Aicsevor alla Onalim (Milan upside down). Seven Main Vices. (1995)
Animals' Carnival (1996)
Elements' Carnival (1997)
An underground Carnival in which excess becomes subject of parties, installations, performances, thematic open-air creations: feast of foolishes, with Carnival's fires and Lent's carts; devils and the "seven main vices"; animals' carnival and metamorphosis' creatures, on alchemy and mystery 's subjects. Open-air performances, installations and stages to go along and to live (the game, the dance), ephemeral sceneries and big events that open and close the time of amusement.

Milan - Parco Lambro, Castello Sforzesco, Arena Civica and center
Municipality of Milan and The Risorgimento Museum
The sunrise of liberty (1996)
Three days long performances all over the town: historical fresco to rebuild fights, parades with 500 figurants coming from all Europe, military camps, to celebrate the bicentenary of Napoleon's Campaign of Italy.

Milan - Castello Sforzesco and Parco Sempione
Municipality of Milan and ANPI
April 25th, Feast of liberation. Feast of freedom. April Feast.
Urban feast to celebrate a Country freeing itself, the unity of a nation after the war.
Solemn conclusion with a fireworks concert.

Milan - Castello Sforzesco, Cortile della Rocchetta
Apulia Province
Terrautentica (1998)
Staging of a Garden of Olives, for Bit's edition in Milan, to introduce colours, scents and flavours of Apulia land.

Milan - Galleria Vittorio Emanuele
Apulia Province
Stories of lights. The splendour of stones in a blue sea. (1999)
Realized in Milan in occasion of Bit's 1999 edition thanks to Apulia Province, that gave to Milan some fragments of its beauty and culture: a big sailing ship occupying Octagon, images of Apulia's most beautiful monuments projected on sails; dances and songs on the bridge; ten sailing ships hanging under the vault, creating a suspended sea's illusion.

Modena - Piazza Grande and Parco Novi Sad
Municipality of Modena
Great Celebrations at Court of Estensi (1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002)
Events and performances in occasion of Estensi' evenings, in the beautiful Piazza Grande, declared Patrimony of Humanity, and a big public attending.

Montecarlo - Fontvieille Bay
Bureau de Tourisme
Sun and Moon - (1994)
Great Sons et Lumières, moving images to cover the coast; acrobatic angels; flying spheres; Sun and Moon's fight. Fires over water and mountains.

Monza - Center and Park
Municipality of Monza
Saint John's Feast (1989-1996)
Feast of Fire and Light to celebrate summer solstice: spectacular paths crossing the historical centre, open-air choreographies, fireworks concerts, art and nature's itineraries under the stars.

Moscow (Russia) - Revolution Square
Theatre Olympiad 2001
Light of Angels - (2001)
An extraordinary utopia: archangels, cherubs, and seraphs flying over the Cremlin, on the square near to the Red one. An open-air story rich of magic and fascination, with great machineries' spreading, co-production with the Municipality of Bari, to open "Theatres of the World" section, for the first time attending Theatre Olympiad.

Naples - Maschio Angioino and Piazza del Plebiscito
Municipality of Naples and TIM
New year's eve (1996)
Monsters parade of Maschio Angioino, light's tolling and toasts in town, Giants Dance after midnight and Fireworks Concert to welcome the New Year 1996

Municipality of Naples
Mediterranea (2000)
Visions of a journey from sea and overseas, to catch the moment of a Feast that goes away, and perpetually comes back: a journey over the earth and the sky, toward the sea, among towns' symbols of light and heat, of scents, of life.

Municipality of Naples
About Angels and Light (2001)
At New Year's Eve, when time changes, a performance dedicated to peace, solidarity and friendship among peoples.

Palermo - from Palazzo Reale through Cassaro, up to Marina
Municipality of Palermo
Festino di Santa Rosalia (1995, 1996, 1997)
The oldest and biggest mediterranean baroque Feast (uninterrupted since 1624), in memory of Palermo's liberation from pestilence, thanks to Saint Rosalia, vergin of Palermo. Festino's new edition deals about the pestilence and its remedy, the saint, the miracle, the angel, in an open-air creation lasting four hours and crossing all the town, from Normans' Palace up to the sea, on the night of July, 14th.
Hundreds of artists from all Europe, ships, carts, towers of fire, magnificent machineries, curtains of water, fireworks concert to lighten Palermo, and more than 500.000 people attending.
Palermo's Municipality published a book and a CD to gather event's music and images in three years period.

Palermo - Villa Trabia
Municipality of Palermo
The Joyful Town (1997)
The wonderful garden -almost into disuse- of one of the biggest and oldest Villas of Palermo, has been transformed in a path of music, and given back to the town, and to children and adults for their pleasure and use.

Palermo - Piazza Politeama
Municipality of Palermo
Night of the Zodiac (1996)
An open-air story of theatre and images based on the 12 signs of the Zodiac, for the New Year's Day, the Feast of Time above all.

Reykjavic (Island) - National Theatre Square
Culture European Town 2000
Closing Feast of European Capital Town of Culture
Fortune' s allegory - (2000)
Homage to Giacomo Torelli, "Le Grand Sorcier" of Baroque scene. A theatrical feast dedicated to Fortune, surrounded by Universe's elements, Earth, Water, Air, Fire, while magic apparitions and astonishing images run after each other.

Riccione - Aquafan
Parco Aquafan
Overseas - (2001)
Presentation of "Aquafan" project, an aquatic park, an event dedicated to the water - origin of life - and to the sea.

Rimini - San Giuliano
Società de Borg and partners
Feast of Village - (1994 - 1996)
Village of Saint Julian' s ancient feast, open-air stages and performances, dedicated to local legends and memories.

Rome - Torbellamonaca
Municipality of Rome
About Angels and Light (2002)
A performance dealing about Angels and Harmony dedicated to Rome's suburban young people, which more than others need to dream and to transform "impossibility". Angels' flight over the sky of Rome, in a today's poetic story, even though placed in a different time, a "no time zone", where the fantasy of young people live.

Rome - Via Condotti, Piazza di Spagna, Trinità dei Monti
Municipality of Rome and Hermes
Autumn Feast (1997)
An open-air story inspired to De Sphaera's astrologic code, dedicated to Ermes-Mercurius and to Planets.
The performance, played in the beautiful scenery of Trinità dei Monti and Piazza di Spagna, has been attended not only by the famous guests of Hermes, but also shot and transmitted by Italian National TV networks.

Rome - Villa Quintili on Via Appia
Ministry of Cultural Heritage
Archaeological Park of Rome's opening - (1997)
An open-air story, with Villa Quintili's archaeological area as scene, a fascinating place, unique in the world, filled with suggestions, thanks to its geographic position, its architectonic structure and its kind of restoration.

Rome - Lungotevere, "Rome-Europe" Festival
Municipality of Rome and partners
Feast of Summer- (1994)
Light and fire's walking figurations along the river, paths of music and a concert of water and fire.

San Marino - Stadium
National Olympic Committee of San Marino
Opening Ceremony - (2001)
An aerial ceremony to present athletes attending San Marino's Olympic Games, a parade full of colours and surprises.

Sicily - Salt-works of Mozia Island
Festival of Mediterranean
Angel-like and black light - (1989)
A profane melody for light's celebration, a performance based on Mediterranean' s myth, starring Mrs. Irene Papas.

Sicily: Sciacca, Gela, Ragusa, Ibla, Enna, Siracusa, Acireale, Milazzo, Cefalù, historical centers (1997)
Province of Sicily and Federico II Foundation
Cosmogony
Tour organized by Federico II Foundation of Palermo to divulgate the culture in Norman Age.
A performance inspired to Al Sufi's Liber de Locis Stellarum and George Zothurus, Zaparus, Fendulus' Liber Astrologiae.

Seville - Alcázar (Spain) and Vicenza (Italy) - Olympic Theatre Gardens
Biennial Seville Vicenza Festival
El amor brujo - (1998)
Gipsy performance in one act and two pictures played on De Falla's music.
Worldwide "première" scenic form.

Spoleto - Piazza del Duomo
Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi
Planets (1998)
Spoleto Festival 41st edition's opening, staging "Planets" of G. Holst, with Spoleto Festival Chorus and Orchestra. The performance-event obtained a great success of critics and audience.
The Last Angel (2000)
The deep shiver of eternal is evocated by an opera of theatre of ambiences, to celebrate Christmas. Co-production Bologna 2000, Spoleto Festival and Il violino e la selce Festival of Fano.

Terrassa (Spain)
Espectacles Falstaff and Mutua Egara
Travelbooks- (2000)
For the centenary of Mutua Egara Society, the eldest in town, an event from the Nine Hundred to the new Thousand, to narrate strangest ways, attempts, reflections, inventions, illusions of crossing sea, earth and sky.

Tokyo (Japan) - Maronouki
Italy Japan Foundation
Feast of Sky - ( 2001)
A great Reinassance performance-event, inspired to Leonardo Da Vinci's Feast of Heaven; in the centre of Tokyo, the meeting of two Countries, peoples and cultures to inaugurate "Italy in Japan 2001", the first important international window of Italian Art and Culture in the new millennium. A big performance-procession dedicated to Italian Art and Culture.

Trentino - (2002)
Local Tourist Organization
Comano - Hot Springs' little lake
"Naiads"
Archaic water stories for ancient hot springs, already living in Romanic epoch, mythical stories of water and earth, of water and life.
Garniga - Hot Springs
"Reflections"
When the hour suspended between reality and dream comes, the little lake and the wood are filled of fanciful animals: nymphae walking on water, witches building nests, wonderful girls with long blond hair and the moon over them all.
Levico - Hot Springs
"Epique Epoch"
A performance that brings back the memory of an epoch (between '800 and '900) loaded with optimism, welfare, and happiness: The "belle époque".
Pejo - Hot Springs
"Empress' Hot Springs"
Waters of Pejo were recommended to Empress Maria Teresa of Austria: the starting point for a story made of magnificent images, in a European Court's style, rich of historical hits.

Trento (Italy) - Piazza del Duomo
Municipality of Trento
Allegory of Fortune - Opera Carnaval (2002)
Fortune is an allegorical figure bound to Carnival representation. This performance interprets her role with "upside down" actions. Things that usually should be down are up… wonders of Baroque… and of fantasy.

Valencia (Spain) - Arts and Sciences'Town
Town of Valencia
"Planets" of Gustav Holst (2002)
Staging of images' score, that Holst composed picturing incredible visions to himself, which music made fascinating and comprehensible. In a little town, Santiago Calatrava's architectural jewel, the performance is the first initiative of the project "Architectures Theatres", a subject that harmonizes theatre open air's language to great architects' works.