NEWS AND PROJECTS
Filippo Del Corno
IO HITLER
Theater production
Text by Giuseppe Genna
RaiTrade Edizioni Musicali
Adolf Hitler Fulvio Pepe
Ensemble Sentieri selvaggi
Mirco Ghirardini bass clarinet
Valentino Spaggiari trombone
Andrea Dulbecco marimba and percussions
Andrea Rebaudengo piano
Andrea Macchi piano
Aya Shimura cello
Paola Perardi cello
Carlo Boccadoro conductor
Scene e costumi Giovanni De Francesco
Regia Francesco Frongia
Io Hitler is a theater production based on the life of the dictator from 1905 to 1933, just prior to his rise to power. With historical precision the play focuses on little known elements from the life of Hitler, without a single concession to morbid curiosities or fictitious inventions. Hitler is not a legendary icon, nor a grotesque mask. He is a man conscious of his actions and responsible for the series of crimes carried out in what was to become one of history’s most vicious and brutal tragedies.
The actor, alone on stage, impersonates Hitler with hyper-realistic mimicry wrapped in a continuous refraction of video images and immersed in slimy sonorous lava woven by musicans utilizing the gravest textural expressions of their instruments.