Paolo Rossi
Caterina Gabanella
I Solisti Veneti
Giuliano Carella director
Maurilio Cacciatore live electronics
Music by Rossini, Cacciatore
in collaboration with the Veneto Festival of I Solisti Veneti
world premiere
Dario Fo – playwright, actor, director, painter, and set designer – was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1997 for his over 80 plays translated into 24 languages and performed worldwide. The motivation from the Swedish Academy states “that, emulating medieval jesters, mocks power by restoring the dignity of the oppressed”.
In 1978, the staging at La Scala in Milan of the Histoire du soldat by Igor Stravinsky, directed by Dario Fo, marked the theatrical debut of Paolo Rossi, who was twenty-five at the time, profoundly influencing his career and laying the foundations of his theatrical style.
Fo, after attending Il Mistero Buffo (P.S.: in the humble pop version) – Rossi’s reinterpretation of his immense masterpiece – described the actor as follows: “his physicality is undeniable, almost miraculous, and I am struck by his ability to transform. He, of short stature, grows on stage, grows and enlarges before the eyes of the audience”.
In this show of prose and music, Paolo Rossi is joined by actress, director, and psychologist Caterina Gabanella, in a role play inspired by the creative synergy of Dario Fo and Franca Rame.
Rossini’s String Sonatas are an additional tribute to the multifaceted Dario Fo, who directed several Rossinian operas.