LU OpeRave
Clubbing + Opera + Performance
Creative Director Stefano Libertini Protopapa
Libretto Maniaci d’Amore (Francesco d’Amore and Luciana Maniaci)
Music H.E.R., ilromantic
Music consultant Alberto Zanardi
First performance: Bergamo, Balzer Globe, Nov. 16, 2023
The festival will open on Thursday, Nov. 14, with the creation LU OpeRave (repeated on Thursday, Nov. 21 and Friday, Nov. 29) in which Donizetti’s music meets electronics and new trends. The title recalls the most famous of Donizetti’s operas, Lucia di Lammermoor, from which the authors of this experimental project were inspired. The performance, which will take place in an unconventional city venue, with room for conviviality and the audience an integral part of the action. LU OpeRave is a development of Mixopera vol. 1 and vol . 2, the electronic EPs inspired by Donizetti’s music with the participation of a number of musicians gathered around the Fluidostudio label and released on all streaming platforms (Spotify, iTunes, Amazon Music, YouTube Music). Among the artists involved in this creation are some of the performers featured in the EPs such as Protopapa, ilromantico, H.E.R. The libretto is by Love Maniacs. Direction and choreography are by Mattia Agatiello, who brings his Fattoria Vittadini to the stage.
INTRODUCTION
Gaetano Donizetti, in Paris, finds incredible public favor. Paris is a city that gives him many things, makes him realize that dance music is the source of a pleasure never before experienced by large theater audiences. He intuits, therefore, that injecting those pulsations and that sonic fever to accompany the singing can create a truly explosive recipe. As is the case in our culinary tradition, there are ancient recipes that stand stainlessly against time. We believe the time has come to translate this Donizettian recipe into practice: as always tell a story by making it theatrical, give the words the power of song and accompany this singing with dance music. The meeting places of the world’s youth are the clubs, where the contemporary popular music form vibrates: electronica. Opera and electronics. This becomes our pet project, and Lucia di Lammermoor, the great immortal saga about the tragic condition of youth, seems to us the ideal epic for today’s DJs to encounter.
Playbill
Direction and choreography Mattia Agatiello
Scenes and costumes Andrea Cammarosano and Leonardo Persico
LU David Blank
Conscience of LU M¥SS KETA (narrator)
Lucia Laura Ulloa
Donna H.E.R. (violin)
Dj ilromantic
Dancers Fattoria Vittadini
Creation by Fondazione Teatro Donizetti in collaboration with Fattoria Vittadini
inspired by the opera Lucia di Lammermoor
