medea

Work of | Euripides
Direction | Federico Tiezzi
Translator | Massimo Fusillo

Scenographer | Marco Rossi
Costume designer | Giovanna Buzzi
Lighting design | Gianni Pollini
Chorus master | Francesca Della Monica
Chorus and vocals arranger | Ernani Maletta
Assistant director | Giovanni Scandella
Original chorus music and prologue (with the collaboration of the Rome Opera House Children’s Voice Choir) | Silvia Colasanti
Assistant set designer | Francesca Sgariboldi
Assistant costume designer | Ambra Schumacher
Stage manager | Nanni Ragusa
Assistant stage manager | Dario Castro
Assistant chorus and vocal arrangements | William Caruso

PLOT

Medea enters the scene after the nurse has narrated how the princess descending from the Sun followed Jason from Colchis (Turkey) to Corinth and there she was abandoned for Glauce, the daughter of King Creon. We then hear Medea’s moans and screams, while the choir is on stage, until the main character enters and denounces her own condition, unfortunate as the female one usually is. Creon enters and exiles her, but she manages to obtain from him a last final day in Corinth. She then meets Jason, whom she threatens with revenge, better outlined after an encounter with the king of Athens, Aegean, who will host her in his city. After sending poisoned gifts to Glauce, which will kill her and her father, Medea murders her children and denies an annihilated Jason even their bodies, taking them with her on the chariot of the Sun, to Athens.

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CAST

NURSE | Debora Zuin
PEDAGOGUE | Riccardo Livermore
MEDEA | Laura Marinoni
CREON|Roberto Latini
JASON | Alessandro Averone
AEGEAN | Luigi Tabita
THE HERALD | Sandra Toffolatti
FIRST CORYPHAEA | Francesca Ciocchetti
FIRST CHORUS MEMBER| Simonetta Cartia
CHORUS | Alessandra Gigli, Dario Guidi, Anna Charlotte Barbera, Valentina Corrao, Valentina Elia, Caterina Fontana, Francesca Gabucci, Irene Mori, Aurora Miriam Scala, Maddalena Serratore, Giulia Valentini, Claudia Zappia

CHORUS LEADER |Simonetta Cartia
MEDEA’S SONS |Matteo Paguni, Francesco Cutale

With the participation of the students of the Academy of Art of Ancient Drama
FOLLOWERS OF CREON | Jacopo Sarotti, Alberto Carbone Carlo Alberto Denoyè
BEARERS OF MEDEA | Sebastiano Caruso, Moreno Mondì
CHORUS | Andrea Bassoli, Alberto Carbone, Sebastiano Caruso, Alessandra Cosentino, Gaia Cozzolino, Sara De Lauretis, Carlo Alberto Denoyè, Lorenzo Ficara, Leonardo Filoni, Ferdinando Iebba, Althea Mara Luana Iorio, Denise Kendall-Jones, Domenico Lamparelli, Federica Leuci, Emilio Lumastro, Arianna Martinelli, Moreno Mondì, Alice Pennino, Edoardo Pipitone, Jacopo Sarotti, Mariachiara Signorello.