Srpski
Gaetano Donizetti, an “aria” taken from the famous scene of the madness of “Lucia di
Lammermoor”, an opera made famous by the interpretation of Maria Callas: The stage is dark.
This is the moment in which Maria Callas enters the scene after having switched to makeup. An
extraordinary physical appearance, with those big eyes enclosed in a face with high
cheekbones. “La divina” , strong in public and fragile in the private sphere. The stage costume is
impressive and elegant, with his movement it becomes music Itself, smelling of labdanum and
vanilla shaking face powder. Pierpaolo Pasolini defines the figure of this woman as “timeless,
archaic and mythical“, who has made theater a safe place, a shelter where only art is allowed.
The madness of opium, tonka bean, balsamic fir is the basis of this olfactory sculpture. And in
the face of that everyone becomes impotent and feels a dull pain, a sharp pain, almost a
melancholy from the peach heart that warms up in solitude. Madness is an almost perfect world
made up of lesions that inevitably leave scars from the fragrant furrows of lily of the valley. It is a
moment in which you are on stage but thinking of being closed in a dark building waiting to be
warmed by you and your life.
