Le baccanti

From Euripides
A new creation by Micha van Hoecke
With Chiara Muti and Pamela Villoresi
Ensemble of Micha van Hoecke
Choreography and direction by Micha van Hoecke
Dramaturgical adaptation of the texts by Chiara Muti
Costumes by Marella Ferrera
Tableaux on stage Gian Paolo Berto, stage set by Renzo Milan
Light designer Bruno Ciulli
Assistant director and choreographer Yoko Wakabayashi

Performers:
Antonio Aguila Carralero
Michela Caccavale
Rosa Cariulo
Viola Cecchini
Marzia Falcon
Miki Matsuse
Raffaele Sicignano
Michele Francesco Simone
Erica Tamagnini
Silvia Giuffrè
Antonella Grigoli
Laura Licciardello
Giusi Vicari

Technical director Marisa Biagioli
Costume assistant Viviana Ballivo
Set realization by Vincenzo D’Agostino and Paolo Gulotta at Laboratorio Gulotta – Palermo
Sound engineer Francesco Landi
Technical mixing Raffaele Sicignano
Production director Debora Meggiolaro
Thanks to Prof. Filippo Amoroso for making available his translation of “The Bacchae”

Thanks to Floriano Caroli for the tableaux on stage
The Music:
Richard WagnerOverture (from Tannhäuser)
Funeral March (from Götterdämmerung)
Manos Hadjidakis
I am the son of Agave
Two children in the rain
The seller of ideal moments (from The ballads of Athena street)
The wheel will also turn
Spread my Bed so I can sleep (from The cruel April of 1945)
Manoula mou
Monks of Mount Athos
Evlogitaria (Byzantine chant)
“Kodo”
Lion
Monochrome (from Iridori)
Traditional Japanese music
Chichibu-yatai-bayashi (percussions)
Komoro bushi (for shakuhachi, bamboo flute)
Wadaiko matsuriza (percussions)
Godan kinuta (for koto, traditional zither)
Yoshida brothers
Storm
Passion (from The best of Yoshida brothers)
One long river (from Prism)
Haino Keiji
Tenshino gijinka
Naseer Shamma
An Eastern Love Story (from The moon fades)

THE DANCES:
Dance of the Bacchae
Dance of Bacchus
Dance of Pentheus
Dance of the Coryphaea
Dance of the fire
Agave’s dream
Japanese tango and Dionysus’ chant
Dance of Pentheus’ killing
Dance of Agave’s “double”