Kruder & Dorfmeister and Ryoji Ikeda, stars of world music, at the Auditorium Parco della Musica “Ennio Morricone,” close the 40th edition of the festival, which brings major international artists to Rome. For theater special appointments until Nov. 23
By Rosalba Panzieri
Rome is preparing to experience a memorable epilogue for Romaeuropa Festival, now in its 40th edition under the High Patronage of the President of the Italian Republic. The curtain closes Nov. 16 with an evening that weaves together history and the avant-garde of electronic music.
A closing that offers performances for all
The day opens at 5 p.m. in Sala Petrassi with the national premiere of My Fierce Ignorant Step by Greek choreographer Christos Papadopoulos, a dialogue between body and technology that seals the association with the Festival.
On the stage of the Auditorium Parco della Musica “Ennio Morricone,” the legendary Austrian duo. Kruder&Dorfmeisterreturns to Rome with The K&D Sessions Live, a sonic journey celebrating a 30-year career and the legacy of a cult album capable of redefining the concept of remix and compilation. With over a million copies sold, The K&D Sessions marked the 1990s and continues to inspire new generations of artists.
Another star of this closing event will be Japanese composer and visual artist Ryoji Ikeda, a master of the connections between sound and perception, who offers two radical and immersive performances. At 6 p.m., at Teatro Studio Borgna, Ikeda presents. Music for Strings together with Ensemble Modern, transforming strings into pure vibrations and rhythmic pulsations. At 8 p.m., in Sala Sinopoli, he brings to the stage Ultratronics, a hypnotic electronic landscape where glitches and dynamic visuals envelop the viewer in a total sensory experience.
Atomic By Muta Imago on stage through Nov. 23
The creative success of Romaeuropa Festival co-productions is confirmed in its 40th edition, reaffirming the Festival's role as a laboratory of innovation and dialogue between institutions. The collaboration with the Fondazione Teatro di Roma is renewed at Teatro India, where the handover between the two entities welcomes Atomic, the new creation of Muta Imago. Presented in its Italian premiere on Nov. 13 and 14 as part of the Festival's closing week, the work continues through Nov. 23 as part of the Teatro di Roma's season. Directed by Claudia Sorace and with sound dramaturgy by Riccardo Fazi, the duo continues its investigation into memory, time and identity, transforming the correspondence between Günther Anders and Claude Eatherly into stage material. Their epistolary dialogue, born out of the trauma of Hiroshima, becomes a reflection on ethics, responsibility and the possibility of redemption.
Coproductions for a worldwide spread of theater
That of co-production is one of the founding vocations of the Romaeuropa Festival, which thus succeeds in serving the best international dramaturgical creations and supporting cultural and artistic contamination across borders. A shining example of this is Valentina, a show by French director Caroline Guiela Nguyen, director of the Théâtre National de Strasbourg, brought to the Teatro Argentina for its national premiere. The show was chorealized in collaboration with the Piccolo Teatro di Milano - Teatro d'Europa and the Fondazione Teatro di Roma - Teatro Nazionale . Constructed as a contemporary fairy tale, the show revolves around a medical letter that a young woman must translate for her Romanian mother, revealing a painful truth. At the center of the narrative is the relationship between truth and lies, explored through the theme of translation as a fragile but powerful tool, capable of shedding light on identities suspended between languages, cultures and institutions. The national premiere as part of the Romaeuropa Festival, it established itself as a splendid example of modern theater, thanks to the continuous onstage intervention of a live camera, which transformed the play into a film.
A utopia that becomes reality
From Sept. 4 to Nov. 16, the Romaeuropa Festival offered 110 events and hosted more than 700 artists from around the world, reaffirming its vocation: to transform the city through culture, like a utopia alive since 1986. The city has been transformed into a crossroads of dance, music, theater, digital arts and creations for children, establishing the Festival, founded in 1986 by Monique Veaute and now led by Fabrizio Grifasi, as a living laboratory of dialogue and cultural encounter. “Romaeuropa,” comments Fondazione Romaeuropa President Guido Fabiani, "continues to be a space of encounters and discoveries, where artists and audiences are confronted with different languages and where several artistic generations dialogue. We would like to thank the Ministry of Culture, the Lazio Region and Roma Capitale who again this year made this journey possible together with the Embassies and Cultural Institutes that participate in the Festival and fully represent its international spirit.".
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