From Jan. 25-29, 2023, Bruno Maderna’s opera “Satyricon” will be staged at the Malibran Theater in a new production by the Fondazione Teatro La Fenice.
In the same year of his death, Venetian composer Bruno Maderna (1920-1973) staged the pamphlet Satyricon by the Roman author Petronius as a chamber opera. Petronius flogged the debauchery of the nouveau riche through the seminal episode of Trimalchio’s banquet, featuring a former slave who attained immense wealth in Nero’s Rome and frolicked in ridiculous ostentation, gluttony and perversity. Maderna underlines the parallels between the Roman Empire and contemporary society, imagining decadence as a constant in world history. The work consists of 16 unsorted numbers (with the possibility of inserting taped numbers between them); the collage effect extends to the music with quotations from Bizet, Gluck, Mozart, Offenbach, Strauss, Stravinsky, Verdi, Wagner and Weill.
The artistic cast includes: Manuela Custer, Quartilla/Fortunata; Francesca Gerbasi, Chrysalis; Marcello Nardis, Trimalchio; Christopher Lemmings, Habinnas; William Corrò, Niceros; Matteo Ferrara, Eumolpus; while the technical cast includes: Alessandro Cappelletto, conductor; Francesco Bortolozzo, director; Andrea Fiduccia, sets; Marta Del Fabbro, costumes; Fabio Barettin, lighting.
Website: www.teatrolafenice.it
Location: Malibran Theater, Venice
Schedule: January 25 – 29, 2023
