“‘I, Ennio Morricone, am dead,’ wrote the composer before bidding farewell. His music, on the other hand, cannot. And thus, creators and artists always leave us without leaving us, and thus memory takes care to keep them alive, to keep them safe. Notte Morricone is my gift, a devout tribute to the beauty he gave to the world. Ennio Morricone could be my father, or my grandfather, I am a direct heir to his legacy, to the films that (whether masterpieces, good, mediocre, or bad) owe him an immeasurable debt.” – Marcos Morau
Notte Morricone, the new creation of CCN / Aterballetto by the award-winning choreographer Marcos Morau, debuts on August 1, 2024, at the Arena Sferisterio of the Macerata Opera Festival. The show features the entire ensemble of the Aterballetto Company and, thanks to a group of national co-producers, celebrates the indelible artistic legacy of Oscar-winning Ennio Morricone.
After collaborating with some of the most renowned international choreographers, such as Jiří Kylián, Ohad Naharin, and Johan Inger, the CCN now turns to Marcos Morau, one of the most sought-after choreographers in the contemporary scene. The Spanish author, with his visionary power and the ability to transfigure musical universes, proposes a unique evening that intertwines dance, visual arts, and cinematic suggestions. According to Gigi Cristoforetti, “thanks also to the collaboration of important production partners, some of whom have been faithful over the years, others brand new and arrived for the occasion, the CCN/Aterballetto faces its most ambitious challenge.”
With an innate tendency to reconcile very different vocabularies and inspirations, Marcos Morau is an artist capable of deeply interrogating contemporaneity, of which he is an intense choreographic voice, but not only. In him, the theme of the hybridization of languages is “native,” as we could say borrowing the expression used for millennials and their digital practice.
The show is the result of interdisciplinary collaborations between dance, music, and theater entities. Two main co-producers: Macerata Opera Festival (first outdoor: August 1, 2024) and Teatro di Roma (first indoor: October 24 at Teatro Argentina, where the performances will continue until November 10). Also co-producing are the Fondazione I Teatri di Reggio Emilia, the Centro Servizi Culturali Santa Chiara of Trento, the Centro Teatrale Bresciano, and Ravenna Festival which has made available the Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini, to which the score is entrusted, adapted and transcribed by Maestro Maurizio Billi.
