SPORTOPERA
BY CLAUDIO DI PALMA E VESUVIOTEATRO
CAPODIMONTE, MANIFATTURA DELLA PORCELLANA (PORTA MIANO)
FROM 23 TO 30 JUNE
Hubris refers to the urge to commit transgressions against the will of the gods, an instinctive but systematic rebellion against the sense of an ending. The signs of hubris can be seen in establishing a record, whether a personal one or an all-time record, in following unexpected paths, in obstinately trying to beat time and natural equilibria, in other words, in the giddiness that accompanies any sporting feat. An exclusively human demand aimed at the quasi-sacred identification of the athlete’s body which, while respecting the rules, becomes the temple of knowledge, inspired lightness and self-determination. This is arguably what is meant by religio athletae – the worship of athletes – in which the cult values of ancient sport merge with those of modern athleticism. The search for a sacred significance in an athlete’s gesture should be the lens through which SportOpera 2021 can be read.
L’ALA DESTRA DEL DIO DI CUOIO
BY SARA BILOTTI E LUCIANO MELCHIONNA
WITH SARA ESPOSITO
COSTUMES MILLA
MUSIC MARCO GUAZZONE
DIRECTOR LUCIANO MELCHIONNA
PRODUCTION ENTE TEATRO CRONACA VESUVIOTEATRO
MANIFATTURA DELLA PORCELLANA 30 JUNE HOURS 21.00 DURATA 50 MIN
According to Pier Paolo, football is a religion, a sacred place of the mind and the body. Here, the poetry and hope of a god who runs among us, sweats like us, is joyful and desperate like us and, just like us, is destined to die not of old age but of too much “life”, coincide and become manifest. These are the words of Amedeo Biavati, the right-winger of the Bologna team’s “golden age”, the master of the step-over who holds the record of being the only person whom the writer and director Pasolini ever asked for an autograph.
