Pippo Delbono’s “Amore e carne” to be staged in Romania

Newsroom 13/06/2014 | 17:58

“Amore e carne” / “Love and meat” is an exceptional performance presented by the Italian theater director Pippo Delbono and Romanian violinist Alexandru Balanescu (in picture), transforming the performance into a mix of music and poetry.

Starting from Rimbaud’s verse, Pippo Delbono’s show devotes the great writers of the twentieth century such as Pasolini, Artaud, Eliot and Whitman. The performance represents a narrative similar to a hymn, for which the music was created by Alexandru Balanescu. From the experience of death and the desire to live, their work results in a concert of four hands.

“This performance is my meeting with the violin, the musical instrument that my father used to sing at night, after his return from work. He sold the violin and I couldn’t hear its sound again. When I first heard Alexandru Balanescu singing the violin, I took notice of some soul’s screams in his music. The voice and the violin then come together and merged with the words of Pasolini, Rimbaud, Whitman, Eliot in an attempt to rediscover secret tracks, that bring together people and stories regardless the language or the existence”, explains Pippo Delbono his work.

The event will take place on June 17, at Bulandra Theatre, Liviu Ciulei Hall (Izvor), from 19.00. The tickets cost RON 25. On June 14 it was staged in Craiova.

Photo courtesy of Pippo Delbono official website