In collaboration with the Fundación Tres Culturas of Seville and CaixaForum Madrid, the Instituto Italiano de Cultura of Madrid presents Le Due Lune, a theatrical narration show with live music, which will take place in Madrid tomorrow Saturday at 7 p.m. at CaixaForum.
The Le Due Lune project, promoted and sponsored by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and under the auspices of the Italian Embassy, is an extraordinary multicultural show performed by two actresses and accompanied by seven musicians from the World Youth Orchestra, conducted by Maestro Giuranna.
This show tells an episode from The Thousand and One Nights, with interpolations of Italian poetry and arias from the 16th and 17th centuries, verses from Arab and medieval literature, and music from the ancient Maghrebi and Arab-Andalusian tradition. The narration is told through an Italian-Arabic warp, and immediately draws attention to some archetypal themes present in the ancient poems of humanity and coming from an ancient culture of knowledge common to all civilisations.
At the centre of the show is the female figure of Shahrazād (Scheherazade), the archetypal and universal emblem of intelligence and feminine wisdom. A figure that perfectly represents two sides of the same reality: two cultures, Eastern and Western, that confront each other using the privileged instrument of art as a peculiar message of fraternity, love and beauty. The show will be translated into Spanish by the Instituto Italiano de Cultura of Madrid. Tickets can be purchased at this link.
