"AQUAGRANDA" Philip Perocco

November 4, 1966 a terrible flood struck Venice. That day there was the highest high water ever recorded since they began the systematic measurements of the phenomenon: at 18 the tide gauge at Punta della Salute marked portion 194 cm. The flood caused disastrous consequences. Especially was hit Pellestrina, the island in which is set a new work by Philip Perocco inaugurating the Season. Ernesto Ballarin, the protagonist, at the time he was twenty years old and the sea that had engulfed the Murazzi went inside the house coming up to roof and forcing him to evacuate his house and his island along with other three thousand people.

Music: Philip Perocco
Libretto: Roberto Bianchin and Luigi Cerantola
Director: Marco Angius
Directed by Damiano Michieletto
Scene: Paul Fantin
Costumes: Carla Teti
Light designer Alessandro Carletti
Director Sound: Davide Tiso
Video designer: Carmen & Zimmermann Roland Horvath

based on the book "Water Granda", the flood novel by Roberto Bianchin

cast:
Fortunato: Andrea Mastroni (4, 5, 8, 10, 13/11) ⎮ Francesco Milanese (6, 9, 11, 12/11)
Ernesto: Mirko Guadagnini (4, 5, 8, 10, 13/11) ⎮ Paul Antognetti (6, 9, 11, 12/11)
Lilli: Giulia Bolcato (4, 5, 8, 10, 13/11) ⎮ Livia Rado (6, 9, 11, 12/11)
Leda: Silvia Regazzo (4, 5, 8, 10, 13/11) ⎮ Valeria Girardello (6, 9, 11, 12/11)
Nane: Vincenzo Nizzardo
Luciano: William Corrò (4, 5, 8, 10, 13/11) ⎮ Thomas Barea (6, 9, 11, 12/11)
Cester: Marcello Nardis (4, 5, 8, 10, 13/11) ⎮ Christian Collia (6, 9, 11, 12/11)

Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro La Fenice
Chorus Master ⎮ Claudio Marino Moretti

with surtitles in Italian and English

new commission Fondazione Teatro La Fenice
on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the flood of November 4, 1966
with the support of Freundskreis des Teatro La Fenice

first performance