Director

A stage, a piano, a voice that tells the story of Ornella Vanoni as we've never heard her before.

In "Sentimental Diary of a Free Woman," Pacifico constructs an intimate and ironic portrait of a key figure in Italian music, following her missteps and leaps into the unknown, amidst success, fragility, professed loneliness, and a stubborn longing for companionship. The lyrics, born from their close encounters in recent years, from the songs they wrote together, and from the biography "Vincente o perdente," bring to life the most secretive Ornella: intelligent, unpredictable, anarchic and sly, combative and defenseless. Led by Gabriele Russo, with Elisa Parmigiani on vocals and Carlo Gaudiello on piano, words and music intertwine in a confidential tale that opens the doors to Ornella's "home," amidst memories to be cherished and memories to be exorcised.

Pacifico

Colosseum Theater, Torino TO

For Gabriele Russo, the family remains the quintessential seismic zone of theater, the terrain on which, from Sophocles onward, the rift between the need for love and the need to defend oneself from love itself plays out. In 2025, this Endgame frees Beckett from the framework of the Absurd and the post-apocalyptic to place him in our everyday reality. Hamm and Clov, played respectively by Michele Di Mauro and Giuseppe Sartori, live in a decadent, suffocating home, and their sense of meaninglessness is constant, recurring, imbued with fear of change and entrenched survival habits. Alessio Piazza and Anna Rita Vitolo, as Nagg and Nell, complete the family picture and offer us a snapshot of the present, between dependence and love, irony and desperation. Not a philosophical metaphor, but a tender and ferocious struggle to stay alive, together, until the end.

Director

Gabriele Russo

Events

Upcoming events

Dec 22, 2026

Pacifico · Teatro Colosseo

16 - 21 Mar, 2027

Endgame · Teatro Stabile Torino

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