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

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.