Infernu di Dante
Alcantara Gorges, Motta Camastra (ME), 20 km from Taormina
August 11, 12 and 13 2017 @ 8.45pm (1st turn), 9.45pm (2nd turn), 10.45pm (3rd turn)
Ticket: € 11,50
Free car parking
An innovative interpretation of the Inferno, “Hell”, the first part of Dante Alighieri’s 14th-century epic poem Divine Comedy. It is followed by Purgatorio and Paradiso.
The Inferno tells the journey of Dante through Hell, guided by the ancient Roman poet Virgil. In the poem, Hell is depicted as nine concentric circles of torment located within the Earth; it is the “realm … of those who have rejected spiritual values by yielding to bestial appetites or violence, or by perverting their human intellect to fraud or malice against their fellowmen”. As an allegory, the Divine Comedy represents the journey of the soul toward God, with the Inferno describing the recognition and rejection of sin.
Performers
Berta Ceglie (Dante Alighieri), Camillo Sanguedolce (Caronte, Brunetto Latini), Tecla Guzzardi (Francesca), Elmo Ler (Farinata), Antonio Marino (Ulisse), Sebastiano Mancuso (Conte Ugolino).
Virgilio (the mime actor Rosario Vasile and the voice-over by Giovanni Anzalone).
Other performers
City Ballet Company (Tecla Guzzardi, Chiara Coco, Giulia Bertino e Michelangela Cristaldi)
Anima Ignis Company, fire jugglers.
Costumes by Gabriella Ferrera
Setting by Sergio Platania
effects by Sergio Greco.
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Please remember to wear comfortable shoes as the set of performance is the pebbly bank of the river Alcantara.
