Vinicio Capossela

Teatro Alessandrino

“Unhappy ones who, alive, descended to the houses of Hades, twice mortal, when others die only once, come now, eat the food and drink the wine.”

Odyssey 20, XII

The Days of the Dead are rooted in time. The season ushering in winter offers the most fitting symbolism to celebrate the sleep of death. From October 31st to November 2nd, it is a liminal point on the calendar, a point of transition between the living and the dead. The journey among the dead is one of the oldest imagined by man; from the Odyssey onward, it has been an uninterrupted flow of stories, poems, legends, beliefs, and rituals. To celebrate life, we must be aware of death, and the Day of the Dead offers us the opportunity to do so. The dead must be brought to life, celebrated, nourished, invited, and made to dance. From Mexican calaveras to medieval triumphs of death, from cemetery marches to resurrection marches, from ferrymen to sirens, many bridges open between the world of the living and the world of "truth."
This is the journey of this concert, which takes its title from a famous song by Carmina Burana, a mocking title to exorcise the fear of death by dancing with it.

VINICIO CAPOSSELA “Ad mortem festinamus”