Sat. 12.09
18:00, Teatro Comunale
Ouverture (Extras)
Fernando Strasnoy, Gaetano Palermo, Michele Petrosino, Giuliana Kiersz
Following the 2025 debut of Ouverture – an a cappella opera-performance featuring five singers on five treadmills – Ouverture (Extras) emerges as a new iteration reimagined for the spaces of the Teatro Comunale di Bolzano. Existing within a liminal threshold of space and time, the work interrogates the performative tension that precedes an event, whether in theater or in life itself. The rituals of opera merge with the aesthetics of sports and wellness, charting a pursuit of form and well-being that is perpetually "yet to come". By inhabiting the theater’s rehearsal room, this configuration shifts the boundaries between figure and ground, stage and offstage. Here, voice, word, and movement converge to lay bare the paradox of the modern body: at once disciplined and depleted, suspended between the promise of harmony and the reality of self-exploitation.
The meeting point to access the performance is in the theatre foyer.
Teatro Comunale - Sala prove | Stadttheater - Probensaal
★ World premiere
Duration
50'
Music
Fernando Strasnoy
Libretto
Giuliana Kiersz
Direction and choreography
Gaetano Palermo, Michele Petrosino
Conductor
Laure Deval
Libretto translator
Teresa Vila
Assistant director
Sofia Del Zozzo
Management
Bianca Ramponi
Lighting design
Gaetano Palermo and Nicola Notari
Soprano
Maria Clara Maiztegui
Soprano
Maria Giuliana Seguino
Mezzosoprano
Dominika Isabell Markov
Baritone
Xiaofei Liu
Bass
Daniel Wendler
Production
Fondazione I Teatri di Reggio Emilia / Festival Aperto,
Fondazione Teatro Regio di Parma / Festival Verdi – “Gradus. Passaggi per il nuovo”, a project by Reggio Parma Festival, KLm – Kinkaleri, Le Supplici, mk
Info
The meeting point to access the performance is in the theatre foyer.
Image credits:
Andrea Mazzoni
