From October 2 to 4 in Winterthur, the Centro Coreografico Nazionale/Aterballetto will perform Notte Morricone by Marcos Morau, alongside the Musikkollegium Winterthur orchestra.
From October 3 to 5, 2025, Aterballetto presents a tribute to the music of Ennio Morricone, performed live at the Swiss theater by the Musikkollegium Winterthur Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Maurizio Billi. These performances mark the beginning of the company’s 2025-2026 tour.
“I, Ennio Morricone, am dead,” wrote the composer before his farewell. But his music cannot die. This is how creators and artists always leave us without truly leaving, and how memory keeps them alive, keeping them safe. Notte Morricone is my gift—a devoted tribute to the beauty he gave to the world.
Notte Morricone unfolds in the twilight of an ordinary night in the life of a creative mind, alone and dazed before his sheets, taking notes and envisioning melodies for films that do not yet exist, bringing stories back to life in the rarefied air of his room.
— Marcos Morau, director and choreographer
It is impossible to describe Notte Morricone, a masterful piece that washes over the audience in waves, embracing them with emotional tides, capturing them in the memory of timeless melodies that have outlived the images that inspired them. The choreography, too, is enchanting—crafted with obsessive attention to detail: legs and neck seem jointless, bending and snapping rhythmically like metronomes.
— Maria Luisa Buzzi, Danza&Danza
