On 28 and 29 November CCN/Aterballetto dances Notte Morricone in the season of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, accompanied by the orchestra for the first time in Italy.
On 28 and 29 November 2026, at the Teatro EuropAuditorium in Bologna, Aterballetto presents its homage to the music of Ennio Morricone as part of the dance season of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna. For the first time in Italy, these two performances are played live by the Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, conducted by Maestro Maurizio Billi, with the voice of soprano Federica Caseti Balucani.
“I, Ennio Morricone, am dead,” the composer wrote before taking his leave. His music, however, cannot die. This is how creators and artists always leave us without leaving us, and this is how memory takes care to keep them alive, to keep them safe. Notte Morricone is my gift, a devoted tribute to the beauty he gave the world.
Notte Morricone unfolds in the twilight of an ordinary night in the life of a creative who, alone and dazed before his sheets of paper, takes notes and visualises 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 masterly piece that reaches the spectator in waves, embraces them with emotional surges and holds them in the memory of timeless melodies that have long outlived the images that gave rise to them. The finely chiselled, always poetic choreography is just as enchanting, composed with obsessive attention to detail: legs and necks seem to have no joints, bending and snapping rhythmically like metronomes.
Maria Luisa Buzzi – Danza&Danza
Duration 90′
