A dedication of love draws inspiration from the 7th centenary of Dante’s death for two months of events, planets and satellites that revolve around the central sun of the Poet and his masterpiece, but also follow other and more eccentric orbits. After the premiere with the Wiener, Riccardo Muti travels along The Roads of Friendship with his Cherubini and reaches Yerevan for Tigran Mansurian’s Purgatorio, part of a triptych of commissions that is completed by Giovanni Sollima’s Inferno and Valentin Silvestrov’s Paradiso. But this edition’s treasure trove of premieres also includes Mauro Montalbetti’s chamber opera Teodora and a restaging of L’heure exquise, co-produced with the Royal Ballet, with which Alessandra Ferri and Carsten Jung pay tribute to Béjart and Carla Fracci. The Autumn Trilogy follows the fil rouge of the Poet with three other new productions that explore the languages of dance, music, and words: Sergei Polunin dances his way through the realms of the afterlife, Goethe and Schumann meet for Faust’s dantesque journey in the imaginative staging directed by Luca Micheletti, while Elio Germano and Teho Teardo are entrusted with the luminous verses of the last canto of Paradiso.
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