The Wall & Pink Floyd Greatest Hits
direction Manuel Renga
choreography Michele Merola
video direction Fabio Massimo Iaquone
dramaturgy Emanuele Aldrovandi
set design Matteo Paoletti Franzato
lighting design Marco Cazzola
costume design Nuvia Valestri
actor Jacopo Trebbi
MM Contemporary Dance Company
Orchestra Città di Ferrara
conductor Roberto Molinelli
Accademia Corale “Vittore Veneziani”
choirmaster Teresa Auletta
rock band Pink Sonic
production Fondazione Teatro Comunale di Ferrara, Fondazione I Teatri di Reggio Emilia,
Ravenna Festival, MM Contemporary Dance Company
The Wall is not just one of Pink Floyd’s most successful albums: The Wall is a manifesto, a pop opera that transfigured social consciousness through psychedelic sensibility, becoming one of the most fascinating ‘concept’ albums in rock history. It’s an ambition, a desire to break down barriers and tear down walls, whatever they may be, which the present production entrusts to a choreography and a dramaturgy that reinforce the sense of entrapment and confusion of Pink, the protagonist of the story. Rejecting the pre-established roles imposed on all members of society in a not-so-distant sci-fi future, we are taken on an adventure that immediately plunges us into the dystopian whirlwind imagined by the band in 1979 – visionary, of course, but prophetic nonetheless.
