Canelli in teatro - DIDONE E ENEA

End: 12:30 Painting, literature and music have told the story of Dido and Aeneas countless times: a story of love and abandonment. At the end of the seventeenth century, the English composer Henry Purcell gave it a highly striking visual version: it is the myth told by Virgil, which softens and blurs into a fairy tale, where witches, magical apparitions and an almost dreamlike atmosphere help create a exquisite chamber opera in the triumph of the very Baroque poetics of wonder. Music, singing and evanescence: on these impulses Controluce tells the story of Dido and Aeneas with silhouettes and human shadows. From the opening image of Aeneas’s boat crossing the stage, to the sail-screens - the ideal and symbolic place for the story to unfold - the story of Dido and Aeneas turns into a great mosaic of the memory of the Trojan prince who leaves Carthage forever to go toward his destiny as a hero. Melodrama is a way of telling stories that belong to us and accompany us, great stories that are at the root of our culture. Shadow is intangible, ephemeral, just like music. The pairing with theatre