Triumph, Passion and Death of the Knight of La Mancha

The saintly folly of love and justice of Don Quixote against the amused and cruel malice of the powerful, who disguise themselves as Paladins, in order to ruin with their mockery the only real knight errant who ever walked the earth.

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Pinocchio at the Court of Charlemagne

Passing from Collodi's book to the Sicilian puppet theatre, like an ancient hero who goes from Homeric poem to Greek tragedy, Pinocchio is afflicted by a new trouble that will get him condemned to death seven times over, until a providential nightmare of Charlemagne, the first great European tyrant, will bring our puppet to sit on the throne.

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The Paladin of Assisi

The story of that "Paladin of Christ," as Francis of Assisi called himself, who at a certain point threw off his arms and civilian clothing, thus transforming the spirit of violence of an era and of the Chanson the Roland into evangelic meekness and the "Canticle of God's Creatures."

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The Sword of Roland

 

The story of Roland who arrives at the court of Charlemagne from the grotto of Sutri and, thanks to the Durlindana sword, becomes the first paladin of France until, betrayed by Gano, he falls in the battle of Roncesvalles.

 

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Guerrin Meschino

 

The adventures of a knight who ignores his real name as well as the family, and who thus sets out in search of his own identity, until among the trees of a lost paradise he succeeds in clarifying the mystery.

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Pulcinella among the Saracens

To remedy to his own sadness, the Caliph orders the Visir to capture and bring him Pulcinella. This will put in a difficult position both the Saracens and the Christians, until Pulcinella will reveal the secret of all secrets.

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Moses and the Pharaoh

 

Epic and Biblical Drama where the religious inspiration of Moses and the earthbound logic of the Pharaoh confront each other, until aboth discover the fundamental questions that unite tyrants and victims, soldiers, workers, and Moses himself, in a single and thoroughly human invocation.

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Orlando Paladino

 

Heroic-comic Opera (1782) by Franz Josef Haydn. Libretto by Nunziato Porta (inspired by Ariosto's Poem).
With Pasquale, Orlando (Roland), crazy for love, goes after Angelica and Medoro, between the threats of Rodomonte and the magic spells of Alcina.

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Torquato Tasso Knight of Pen and Sword

 

Life and works of the poet of the "Gerusalemme liberata", between the Ferrara court, the prison and the escape, until he will be confronted wit the "knight without a face" of Destiny.

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Duel between Amphitryon and Jupiter

The ancient Greek myth of the struggle between humans and divinity, who contend the love of a woman

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The King of Jerusalem

 

The historic-biblical drama of Sedecias, king of Judah, in the uneven confrontation  with the armies of Nebuchadnezzar.

 

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Charlemagne in Italy

 

The historic tragedy of the Adelchi by A. Manzoni in the version of the Sicilian Puppet Theatre.

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Angelica among the Paladins

Freely inspired from the Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto, the adventures of Angelica contended between the Paladins Roland and Rinaldo. Music by Prokofiev.

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Federico II Wonder of the World

The complex political, human, and cultural story of one of the most extraordinary emperors in the history of Europe. The show has obtained an important recognition with the grant by the Comitato Nazionale per le celebrazioni dell'VIII centenario della nascita di Federico II.

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