The actors in this nocturnal open-air performance are the marble saints that populate the spires of the Duomo in Milan.

The theme of their dialogues is love, in all its interpretations, well expressed by the four Greek words that explain its different shades of meaning: erao, fileo, agapao, stergo. In other words love for desire, friendship, predilection and respect.

The facade of the Duomo is illuminated with four different shades of red – crimson, amaranth, carmine and scarlet – as metaphors for these meanings. The statues then light up two at a time and begin to converse on the subject using the words of Nietzsche, Savinio, Boccioni, Gadda, Hillesum, Pasolini, Malaparte and Pavese, while the words are projected onto the facade. A choir provides the interval to the lights and words with Monteverdi's Madrigals.

The Dialogues on Love, performed on the evenings of November 3 and 4, was the first event in the Lucegugliavoce series, conceived and directed by Attilio Stocchi as part of the project Domus vivendi, sponsored by the Milan City Council to focus attention on one of the city’s most symbolic buildings. Silvia Monaco

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