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.
PRELUDI – HYBRIS
FROM OMERO, GIOVAN BATTISTA MARINO
WITH STEFANIA ROCCA AND WITH GABRIELLA DORIO, IMMA CERASUOLO
LIVE MUSIC PLAYED BY MASSIMILIANO SACCHI (CLARINETT), ANNALISA MADONNA (VOICE), GIANLUCA ROVINELLO (HARP), MARCELLO GIANNINI (GUITAR AND ELECTRONICS), PASQUALE BENINCASA (PERCUSSION)
SET BY BIENNIO DI SCENOGRAFIA PER IL TEATRO DELL’ACCADEMIA DI BELLE ARTI DI NAPOLI
PRODUCTION ENTE TEATRO CRONACA VESUVIOTEATRO
MANIFATTURA DELLA PORCELLANA 23 JUNE HOUR 21.00 DURATA 70 MIN
Homer has left sounds and verses that provide excellent descriptions of the sports ceremonies of ancient Greece, such as the funerary games for the deaths of Patroclus or Anchises. The celebration of death became the occasion to embody athletic vitality, enabling athletic skills to be tested and underlining the apotropaic function of sport, whose aim was (and still remains) the challenge to the obsession with inertia, to the sense of an ending. However, the end is also the extreme limit of the sports experience, the final shifting of the limit, such as that of Calamus and Carpus in the poem by Marino.
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