TOvete plans to attend one of the latest performances of the prestigious 57th season of the INDA Foundation at the Greek Theater of Syracuse (until July 9)? When you are seated in the large auditorium of the theater, on the steps carved into the rock, take a good look around. You may find yourself next to Monica Bellucci, Jennifer Lopez and partner Ben Affleck or Beyoncé. Or to some other VIPs invited to the exclusive Dolce & Gabbana event, organized from 5 to 12 July, in the locations of the splendid island of Ortigia and in the marine village of Marzamemi.
Dolce & Gabbana high fashion, a precious secret
The eventwhich is repeated every year, in various cities of Italy, to present the collections of Haute Couture (women), Haute Couture (men), High Jewelery and Haute Horlogerie, it is highly armored, reserved for a few professionals, friends and clients of the stylists, and super secret.
Oedipus Re, the mother of all tragedies
A scene from Sophocles’ “Oedipus Re”, directed by Robert Carsen, at the Greek Theater in Syracuse.
Certainly there are only the municipal ordinances that change the viability of Ortigia until July 22, to give space to the Dolce & Gabbana fashion shows, and yes from what the staging of the tragedy Oedipus the King Sophocles (415 BC) directed by Robert Carsen (26 and 29 June, 1 and 3 July) is highly applauded by the public and critics. Hence a strong appeal for international guests present in Syracuse.
“A superb text that has spanned the centuries receives the happy hand of the Canadian artist, capable of generating flights with apparent simplicity, in reality the result of a very accurate creative work, substantiated by the desire to offer a sincere, deeply human work, in an extraordinary stage space. Unmissable »(Anna Di Mauro, on Article 21).
The entry of Clytemnestra in Sophocles’ “Oedipus Re”, directed by Robert Carsen. Photo by Gianni Luigi Carnera.
Oedipusthe cold case solution reveals incest
The story is well known. Oedipus, the stranger who had defeated the Sphinx ten years earlier, reigns in Thebes, husband of Jocasta and father of four children. Led by a priest, his subjects ask him for help against the plague that devastates the city. At first Oedipus seeks the cause indicated by the oracle, the murderer of the previous king, Laius, then his becomes the search for his own identity, which a messenger reveals to him different from what he believed. A cross investigation ultimately leads to the truth. Oedipus is the son of Laius, he unknowingly killed his father, married his mother and generated sons-brothers.
A scene from “Agamemnon” by Aeschylus, directed by Davide Livermore. Photo by Michele Pantano.
Agamemnonthe bloody revenge of a queen
Another spectacle, other family dramas. A mega-mirror 27 meters wide by 8 meters high, placed at the back of the orchestra, reflects the entire cavea of the Greek Theater of Syracuse and the spectators, so directly involved in the events that are told, a little deformed.or. Agamemnon of Aeschylus, directed by Davide Livermore (July 5) opens the trilogy “Oresteia“.
In the palace of Argos, a system of fires warns that Troy has been taken. The return of Agamemnon is anxiously awaited, preceded by a herald who narrates the labors of the war and the arduous return. For some time now, Clytemnestra has been preparing the murder of her husband, who had sacrificed her firstborn Iphigenia. Agamemnon enters the scene taking the concubine with him Cassandra, who prophesies imminent regicide without being believed. She is killed along with the king by Clytemnestra who takes power alongside her lover Egisto.
Clytemnestra (Laura Marinoni) kills Cassandra (Linda Gennari) in Aeschylus’s “Agamemnon”, directed by Davide Livermore. Photo Maria Pia Ballarino.
Iphigeniathe sacrificial victim saved by the goddess Artemis
In Iphigenia in Tauride of Euripides, directed by Jacopo Gassmann (27, 28, 30 June and 2 and 4 July) the register changes. And there is also the happy ending. Agamemnon’s first daughter, Iphigenia, whom everyone believes dead, lives in remote Tauride. The goddess Artemis had saved her, replacing her with a doe and taking her away from Aulis at the moment in which her father was sacrificing her.
Oreste (Ivan Alovisio) and Ifigenia (Anna Della Rosa) in a scene from “Ifigenia in Tauride” by Euripides, directed by Jacopo Gassmann. Photo by Gianni Luigi Carnera.
Iphigenia tells her story in the prologue, describing her own painful condition of priestess of Artemis, a foreigner in a foreign country, forced to make human sacrifices. His brother Orestes, fleeing from the Erinyes, arrives in Tauris with Pyladas and escapes the sacrifice because he recognizes his sister. The three deceive the local king, Toante, and flee to sea.
Anna Della Rosa (Ifigenia) with the choir in Euripides’ Ifigenia in Tauride, directed by Jacopo Gassmann.
Brothers fleeing the barbarians
“Iphigenia in Tauride»Writes in the director’s notes Jacopo Gassmann« is a text studded with questions and contradictions, starting from its stylistically hybrid nature. It is a dark and restless tragedy that suddenly turns into an “escape tragedy”, a sort of daring escape from a land where human sacrifices are apparently made but which, on closer inspection, will reveal a much more ambiguous and elusive nature ».
Anna Della Rosa (Ifigenia) protagonist of “Ifigenia in Tauride” by Euripides, directed by Jacopo Gassmann. Photo Michele Pantano.
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