Prelude Intro

Featured at the beginning of the opera, the prelude is a short introductory piece with a strong impact that serves to define the mood and character of the entire performance.

The instrumental prelude to the composition of Opera Opera thus begins with the piano piece Cloches à Travers les Feuilles by Claude Debussy in Philippe Rahm’s immersive installation, whichembraces the visitor in a sublimated music, a sound that shapes the exhibition space and relates to the movement of those who experience it.

And sound is the element that accompanies us throughout Opera Opera and invites us to meet in the invisible place of creation, recalled by Liliana Moro’s Fischio, a metaphor for relationships and exchanges with the other. On the other hand,Vedovamazzei’s opulent chandelier-shelter Climbing, takes the form of a sort of raised foyer that, fulfilling its function as a meeting place and social space, becomes an  exclusive space that switches the focus to the drama of social exclusion in a negotiation between fiction and reality.

We reach a moment of absolute poetry, where thought is sublimated in its own negation, in the eulogy to absence by Maurizio Nannucci, master of a poetics of the invisible that heralds the experiences of sound and imaginative perception offered by the Opera Opera artworks. Lastly, in the Rotunde, Positi by Olaf Nicolai, a marble oasis of waiting and meditation, at the same time, of union and exchange, recalls dialogue and action configuring itself as the ultimate threshold towards the more performative dimension of the Stage.