Doublesex

Idea and text by Antonia Sorce

Music by Emilio Galante

Images by Enzo Patti

Reciter Mara Pieri

“Celestino Eccher” choir directed by Chiara Biondani

Sonata Islands Trio (Emilio Galante - Andrea Dulbecco -Salvatore Maiore)

Freely inspired by “Middlesex” by Jeffrey Eugenides (Pulitzer prize in 2003), the music performance narrates the life of a hermaphrodite. This topic invites us to reflect upon a sexual aspect that has always existed and is part of the current debate on the gender identity.

Sandra-Sandro was born in the USA and moved to Palermo, his/her grandparents' town, to search for the origins of his/her being hermaphrodite. The sceneries have been drawn by the artist Enzo Patti from Palermo. The text is recited in Italian, while the choir, who has the same function as the Greek chorus, makes comments in English, separating the two levels of the narration. Though being a contemporary topic, this narration is universal, because of its mythological roots and because of the dream-like distance shaped by music, recitation and black and white images in a sort of modern Gesamtkunstwerk..

Performed for the first time in Cles in July 2015 and in December at the MART in Rovereto, the oratorio is a production of Trentino Jazz.