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PERSONA
concepito e creato per Quadriennial in Prague giugno 2011
In the darkness of an air raid shelter one goes to meet to a satyr mask that in its eye and mouth cavities is agitated from a convulsive and deafening mechanical device. This is a Papposilenus from the Hellenistic period, a depiction of the oldest of the satyrs, the one who hates the city. It is with a comic language that Castellucci tells the human comedy, and it is with an inhuman gaze that he stares at the human. The heavy matter of the monumental bronze of which the mask is made is contradicted by the speed of its gaze and its language: this semi-ferine entity sees "everything" and speaks "everything," visual angles and peoples' languages are added to it. The sonority it picks up and sends back, as it twists its eyeballs as if in the grip of to an ecstasy or to a delirium, is the result of the condensation of a shouting crowd, and its bronze resonates like a bell. The installation's goal is to instill fear, but fear of what it beholds: us, the spectators, the novo of the species, the spectator-spectators. Persona, which means "mask" in Latin, is our face to face with an alarm siren.
p.s. Persona in Latin means mask.
Romeo Castellucci
Intersection, Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, Prague, June 2011
Festival Homo Novus, Riga, September 2011
_Meteor 2011 - BIT Teatergarasjen, Bergen, October 2011 _
_Festival Stgo. to Mil - Santiago del Chile, January 2012 _
_ArtCity, Bologna, January 2014 _
conceived and created for Quadriennial in Prague June 2011
installation by Romeo Castellucci
sound Scott Gibbons
sculpture Giovanna Amoroso,** Istvan Zimmermann**
production Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio
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.