THE PROJECT

“Il risveglio degli Dei” is a performance about classical greek myth’s world, a dream journey that tells about this fantastic time never existed,  written 2600 years ago and survived to this day. The Gods of Olympus rise again in our day revealing themselves to visitors, and tell them about the Myths, between music and dances . Themselves are the Myths! Not only the Gods; the visitors relive along with the tragic characters their eternal drama, loves, wars, heroic feats and unsolved conflicts. Everyone seems to be born from ancient stones,  moves and hides itself, light as a shadow but real as white marble statues.

The suggestion of the places where the performance is realised, Archaeological sites, Museums, Ancient theaters and even historic buildings, generates this magic vision: The complicity of the sunrise or sunset creates every time a canvas of new colors, in a ghostly but peaceful silence. And suddenly the music.

Il Risveglio degli Dei allows you to live the archaeological sites in a new way. In fact, this show follows the current direction of the head of Cultural Heritage that wants to explore alternative ways to visit them, offering to tourists not only the classical guided tours but immersive and interactive expriences, to impress in themselves a new greater emotion. On the one hand, in fact, we will have the immense evocative power of the place that tells us the history and on the other hand a show inspired by it, which makes us relive that story with the power of the performing arts.

DIRECTOR’S NOTE

 

Il Risveglio degli Dei makes us believe in the characters we have read in the books of Greek literature; we can imagine that world away inside of a Cultural Heritage, thinking about what the ancient Greeks dreamed of looking at the statues and their sacred temples. We have to remember that the mythological universe with its stories, so divine and so human, has inspired our entire culture, becoming the archetype of our being, not only in theater and literature, but also in human consciousness.

In this game of inspiration, memories of study and ecstasy in front of ancient places, I walked through the Valle dei Templi of Agrigento and I was immersed in that vision, among the ruins, trees and fallen stones: a perfect natural theater to tell the people the eternal story of the Myth. Looking at the Valley I felt the sublime, “in a noble impulse of joy and pride, as I created myself what I saw and heard”.

And suddenly the greek gods were already there, true and perfect, before my eyes.

HISTORY

From 2017 to 2023, more than 40 performances of the show were performed with a total of over 22,000 spectators. In December 2017, the International Contemporary Venice Exhibition opens at the Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi.

In summer 2020 the show is on tour in the most prestigious archaeological sites of Sicily, registering sold out everywhere. In 2020 and 2022 “Il Risveglio degli Dei: The Awakening of the Gods” is staged at dawn at the Ancient Theatre of Taormina in the billboard of Taormina Art. In 2023 and 2024 it flies to Milan, hosted at BIT (International Tourist Exchange). In the same year “Il Risveglio degli Dei” achive some important milestones: it was represented in Bevagna, village in Umbria, and for the first time it landed abroad. Paris during the spring, Los Angeles and New York.