The words of Virgil read like a storyboard, a kind of early screenplay, and “through those words – Popolizio says – I seek to create real images, to show you what is written”. 
The theme is deceit. The immense horse, a gift from the Greeks, is taken within the walls of Troy, but for the Trojans it becomes a machine of death and destruction. In the court of Dido, Aeneas describes that night of violence and horror with “unspeakable suffering”. 
The music of Stefano Saletti, played live on stage, is enriched by the presence of the Iranian musician Pejman Tadayon on the kemenche, the daf and the ney, ancient and evocative instruments from Persian tradition. The languages used are Ladino, Aramaic, Hebrew and Sabir, an ancient Mediterranean language. Saletti uses instruments such as the oud, the bouzouki and the bodhran to enhance the atmosphere animated by Massimo Popolizio and the crystalline voice of Yasemin Sannino, which shifts between melisma and scales of Middle Eastern origin. A veritable “score” that renders this work an opera, where the voice of Popolizio gains form and body. 

Duration: 70’ without interval

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