Fairy tale in music for narrator,
images and symphony orchestra

text by Laura Muscarà
original music Gabriele Bonolis
narrator Tiziana Foschi
concept designer Fabio Contini
graphic designer Francesca Marinelli

graphic Francesca De Bassa

Milan Symphony Orchestra Giuseppe Verdi
conductor Gabriele Bonolis

The Great Sun King has ceased to rise and shine in the high heavens; the Earth is abandoned to itself and everything suffers.
After illuminating the lives of others for millennia, the Great King has been struck from down by an energetic meltdown and only long therapy and rest will heal him, as prescribed from a specialist who has come from East.
But far from having the hoped-for effect, the passage of time contributes to to making the Sun King increasingly capricious and despotic, determining him to to establish in the kingdom a regime of strict sadness and to banish anything that might even recall the idea of festivity and merriment.
Until the day when an impassioned pleading message, sent from a mysterious admirer, seems at last to awaken the King from that torpor, nourishing in him the hope that he has found a new and deeper reason for existing.
To discover the identity of Rising Light - the sender of the message - the Sun King first turns to the Aurora Borealis, his old nurse, then appeals to the cooperation of all the planets, from him gathered in a great extraordinary assembly.

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It is Mercury, his younger brother, who will to unravel the mystery: Rising Light is none other than the Queen of Night, who in the darkness travels the celestial vault in her silver chariot. The wily Mercury then points out to the King the propitious place and time for a meeting.

At last the Sun King meets Rising Light, understanding that he is for her Principle of Life. But precisely because of the relationship that binds them, the Sun and Moon will not be able to live out their feelings unless from far away, respecting the laws of the Universe and the duties that the celestial Bodies have towards creation. In fact, it is the Moon′s duty to regulate the marine life cycles, the Sun′s to regulate the terrestrial ones.
The two lovers will only be able to meet once a year on the occasion of the summer solstice, contenting themselves, for the rest, to brush against each other in the fading of the sunset.
The Great Sun King, to the delight of his subjects, returns to shining with vigor bringing life and prosperity back to Earth.

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