music by
Andrea Cera
maestro
Marco Angius
libretto and script by
ricci/forte
stage designer
Andrea Stanisci
costume
Clelia De Angelis
technical director
Danilo Quattrociocchi
assistant director
Liliana Laera
directed by
Stefano Ricci
tenors
Marco Rencinai
Alec Roupen Avedissian
mezzosoprani
Beatrice Mezzanotte
Candida Guida
attori
Anna Gualdo
Giuseppe Sartori
Orchestra del Teatro Lirico Sperimentale di Spoleto A Belli
A hospital anteroom, a lost youth, Jesus' birth, and Judas' death.
A CHRISTMAS EVE is a visionary inquiry about uneasy relationships where familiar rules are confused and overturned.
A woman has carried out an existence without any rift, whereas the other is obstinate in looking for answers. Between the two sisters, there is an open conflict pushed by the incapacity of one woman for helping the other one. This missed help is caused by the fear of losing the most precious good: her own control.
On an unhealthy Christmas Eve, all the chickens come home to roost and all the ghosts - that had moved away the two sisters on two inaccessible spots - come to light. Ivory towers fell to pieces and light up the shadow areas in the miasmas of a baleful father dying in a clinic where life and eternal sleep fight every day.
The obstacle journey towards a stronger consciousness has just started. The paralysed feelings squirt out of an infecting jack-in-the-box sweeping away the whole family. However, none of them will be able to figure out where this mule track of horrors will lead.
A soul journey through the dark paths of Death. The charming power of music: melody brings to light, melody buries. Hospital is the door to the Hades. The snow that covers the Hereafter and the wait for a new blossom picture the cycle of decay and regeneration of Nature. Christmas turns into Styx, a psychic gulf to cross in order to recover the path.