Ulysses, in this moment in which we try to leave the war against the pandemic behind us, a hero traveling through various pitfalls after a war in search of lost tranquility, of the life of the past, is a figure who evidently returns to seduce us. Now, the `` Contemporary Ulysses '' project directed by Piero Maccarinelli, which started with two appointments in Calabria with Elisabetta Pozzi and Francesco Migliaccio in the Archaeological Park of Locri Epizefiri at the Temple of Marasà and at the Greek Roman Theater of Portigliola, arrives in Lazio , at Tusculum and Rome.
Only a few months ago, for The long life of myths in Pordenone Vera Vecchiarelli illustrated and retraced '' The journey of Ulysses in Italian song '', from Guccini, to Lucio Dalla, from Caparezza to Enrico Ruggeri just to name a few, and shortly before, Dario D'Ambrosi had worked with his actors of the Pathological Theater on the '' Journey of Ulysses ''; at the Pergola the Maggio Musicale proposed in July in Florence '' The return of Ulysses to his homeland '' by Claudio Monteverdi under the direction of Robert Carsen; the Trasparenze festival, organized by the Teatro dei Venti in Modena, conducted a workshop at the end of July that produced '' Odissea '', a show with the inmates of two Emilian prisons, the Modena prison and the Castelfranco Emilia prison, preceded Moreover,a year ago, from the '' Odissea Web '' by Raffaele Manco and Stefano Tè, also director of the theatrical work; Nicola Piovani has set to music the '' Travels of Ulysses '' according to authors of all eras performed with projections of drawings by Milo Manara. Two, also in Lazio, the appointments of '' Contemporary Ulysses '', here with Graziano Piazza and Viola Graziosi at the Roman Theater of Tuscolo: on August 28 with the subtitle '' Greece '', accompanied by the musicians Saletti & Banda Ikona and with a critical intervention by Giuseppe Manfrid; on 29 August '' The word, the verse, the sea '', with the music of Antonio Di Pofi and the critical intervention by Piero Boitani. To these is added on 24 September the grand finale in Rome, at the cavea of the Parco della Musica,with Maddalena Crippa and Sandro Lombardi and the music of Rita Marcotulli, plus the critical intervention by Eva Cantarella. '' Contemporary Ulysses '' is a Q Academy project on the figure of the hero of the classic '' Odyssey '' as our contemporary: they are five itinerant evenings in significant archaeological sites to propose the figure of the Homeric hero in a modern key, with the artistic direction of Piero Maccarinelli and the coordination of Giovanna Marinelli, with a collaboration of the Editors for the historical-cultural contributions. '' The undisputed protagonist is the Homeric Odysseus, a presence that overwhelmingly recalls Dante's hero, eager to know, to overcome his own limits, even in search of a divine presence - explains the director - Superman and ascetic,patient and devious, daring and opportunist, Odysseus nevertheless reveals his more human side, with an unexpected and much deeper psychological profile, which reaffirms his wandering and restless nature, whose point of arrival is not Ithaca, but the journey, life itself, our wandering in search of lost normality ''.
The shows follow a precise format: 20 minutes of historical-critical intervention, 20 of musical interventions and 45 of readings-interpretations of literary texts. In the first, '' Greece '', the passages of Homer's Odyssey in the translation by Dario Del Corno take shape and voice, while some suggestions from the Odyssey of the Nobel Prize for Literature Dereki Walcott will be compared with Nikos's Odyssey Kazanzatkis that starts right from the end of the classic one. Kazantzakis makes his own Dante's recommendation `` you were not made to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge ''. In '' La Parola, Il Verso, Il Mare '' voices are compared ranging from Joyce's' 'Ulysses'' (whose 80th anniversary of death falls this year) to ''Ithaca' 'by Kavafis, from' 'Odysseus to Telemachus'' by Nobel laureate Iosif Brodski to '' Odyssey. Book vigesimo third '' by Borges, from '' Ulisse '' by Pascoli to those by Ritsos, Gozzano, Quasimodo and Saba, to the eclectic but very effective contribution of the '' Odysseus '' of the song by Francesco Guccini, to the suffered reflections by Primo Levi, to Walcott's Caribbean Odyssey, and again to Dante's brief but unavoidable passage.of the song by Francesco Guccini, to the painful reflections of Primo Levi, to the Caribbean Odyssey by Walcott, and again to the brief but unavoidable passage of Dante.of the song by Francesco Guccini, to the painful reflections of Primo Levi, to the Caribbean Odyssey by Walcott, and again to the brief but unavoidable passage of Dante.
