Director, creator of sets, lights and costumes, Romeo Castellucci (Cesena, Italy, 1960) is known worldwide for having given life to to a theater founded on the totality of the arts and aimed at to an integral perception of 'opera. His theater proposes a dramaturgy that overturns the primacy of literature, making his theater a complex art form; a theater made of extraordinarily rich images expressed in a language as comprehensible as music, sculpture, painting or architecture. His stagings are regularly invited and produced by the most prestigious international theaters, festivals andopera theaters, in more than fifty countries spanning all continents. His most recent creations include The Minister's Black Veil inspired by Hawthorne's novella of the same name (2016), Arthur Honegger's Jeanne au bûcher (2017), Democracy in America loosely based on Alexis de Tocqueville's text (2017), Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser (2017), and at the Salzburg Festival, Richard Strauss' Salome (2018). Triple award received for the 2018-19 season from Romeo Castellucci for Salomé from the "Oscars" of European opera, a poll of fifty international music critics by the German magazine Opernwelt: Award for "Best Performance," "Best Director Award," "Best Set Designer Award".At the end of 2018, the project "Un automne avec Romeo Castellucci" sees the presentation of: The Magic Flute to La Monnaie, the opening of the History of oil painting exhibition to Bozar and the latest theatrical creation entitled The New Life to Kanal-Centre Pompidou, a performance that questions collective destiny and art. In January 2019 he makes his debut atOpera Garnier with Alessandro Scarlatti's The First Murder. The director's next 2020 opera engagements have been postponed to 2021 to because of the health emergency due to the Coronavirus. These see him engaged again to Salzburg, in 2021, for Mozart-from Ponte's Don Giovanni. The theater also awaits him with the new Societas production titled Bros that was supposed to debut at Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels in May 2020 but has been postponed to 2021.

Born to Florence, he made his professional debut in 1959 when, as a "young songwriter," he participated to a festival at the Arena in Verona and his lyrics were awarded a gold medal. In the 1960s he produced numerous musical shows and signed the lyrics to a hundred songs. In 1971 one of his lyrics won a contest held from TV Sorrisi e Canzoni and received the "Gatto d'Argento." In 1972 his most successful song was released,_ I giorni dell'arcobaleno_, which won the 22nd Sanremo Festival. In 1983 he was among the founders of the theater group "I Giovani Attempati" for which he wrote the texts of the five musical comedies that would be staged and repeatedly performed for the next twelve years. Since the late 1970s he has devoted to full time to poetry. He writes the first pages of his verse collection_ Settignano e dintorni_. In 1983 he participated in the founding of the Vittorio Alfieri Academy Association, of which he became president in 1989, and in that same year he founded and still directs the Literary Periodical L'Alfiere/Dolce Stile Eterno. From 1997 to 2003 he participated as a leading actor in the staging of Julius Caesar, based on from Shakespeare, directed by Romeo Castellucci. The play is presented in the most prestigious European festivals as well as in the USA and Australia. In 2006 he is in the group that elaborates and subscribes to the manifesto of the literary movement "Il Dolce Stile Eterno," from himself conceived, which aims at the preservation and continuation of classical Italian poetry.

**SERGIO SCARLATELLA **|Studied at the Bibena theater school in Bologna and specialized by following numerous stages in theater, dance and singing with some of the most representative masters of the contemporary scene. Since 1993 he has been conducting theater workshops aimed at actors and beginners, training courses for teachers and educators, and theater workshops in schools of all grades. In theater, since 2001 he has been working with Romeo Castellucci, for Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio, as an actor and collaborator, on world tours, in the productions Giulio Cesare-Pezzi Staccati, Go down-Moses, Sul concetto di volto nel figlio di Dio, Neither, Folk, Hey Girl!, Il velo nero del pastore, Purgatorio, Vexilla regis prodeunt inferni, Don't look at my face, in the cycle Tragedia Endogonidia and in Giulio Cesare. From 2000 to 2005 he worked in the shows_ Ri-evolution and Eusapia by and with Angelo Amaduzzi and Sergio Scarlatella and in The Hidden Face by Max Lyandvert. In 1994 he founded Teatro dell'Idra and staged L'escuriale_,_ Selezione_ and Il giorno dei conti. He also works in the companies Teatro Bibiena, Compagnia Ludens, Edoardosecondo Teatro. For dance-theater, he works in Ritratti-Divino Sposo by Monica Francia, in In guerra e in amore, Tangaz and Strambalo by Gerardo Lamattina and in_ L'anacoreta della pioggia_ by Selina Bassini and Claudia Bruni. He is in the performances Mannekempis,_ Ibernation_, Contrapasso, Vile body, with the Teddy Bear Company. For children's and figure theater, he works in Silvia Costa's Cuore, Palavras no Escuro with Areiacanta, in Pinocchio and _Cyrano _with Teatro del Drago. In the field of poetry, he takes part to Bum, morto!, La festa di un giorno normale, Foglie di luce dal mare by Stefano Maldini and to Poesia in forma di musica from P.P. Pasolini, with Gabriele Bombardini Trio.

Born to Ravenna, from 1987 to 1990 he worked with Marco Martinelli and Ermanna Montanari's Teatro delle Albe company as a set designer and as an actor, in the role of Strepsiades "the kneeling man"(The Clouds), in a fresco on Aristophanes. From 1990 to 1994 he collaborated with the Monticelli brothers' Teatro del Drago company, figure theater for puppets, puppets and actors, as a set designer, creator of masks, puppets and puppets, and as director. From 1994 to 2004 he conducted theater workshops in secondary schools and finalized universities staging works by Aristophanes, Plautus, Shakespeare, Marivaux, Goldoni, Buechner, Loris Vian, Achille Campanile. He curates a number of musicals with the Company of I Sogn'attori: Judas and Jesus from_ Jesus Christ Superstar_ and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat by to. Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice and the Italian version of The Lion King. Since 1994 with Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio he has been working in the Tragedia Endogonidia cycle, in Look at my face, Inferno, Sul concetto di volto del figlio di Dio, Giulio Cesare-Pezzi staccati.