Romeo Castellucci

Wagner: Die Walküre (2024)

If in 'Das Rheingold' the curtain fell with the hegemony of the gods in Valhalla, the second part of 'Der Ring des Nibelungen' opens with a mortal who, alone on Earth, faces a raging storm. Siegmund is called the hunted warrior, and when he briefly finds p ...

Wagner: Das Rheingold (2023)

Director and visual artist Romeo Castellucci will tackle this mythological material and project his visions over the course of the journey performed by the characters, representing concretely such key elements of the Ring as water and fire. This symbolic r ...

Bros (2023)

Mozart: Don Giovanni (2021)

Premiered in 1787, "Don Giovanni" exposes the timeless theme of a man hovering between vitality and destruction. Neither morality nor the law can stop this serial lover in his quest to conquer all women as he places his own pleasure above all other princip ...

Requiem (2019)

Romeo Castellucci interpretation of Mozart's final work. ...

Democracy in America (2019)

Romeo Castellucci is one of Europe's best-known directors, a firebrand known for productions that are as thought-provoking as they are visually stunning. He returns to Peak Performances with the American premiere of "Democracy in America," freely inspired ...

Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (2018)

Die Zauberflöte is one of Mozart's most famous works and one of the most beloved of the entire operatic repertoire. Generations of spectators have been fascinated by the melodies and adventures of Papageno, the Queen of the Night, Tamino, and Pamina, the ...

Strauss: Salome (2018)

The story is set at the beginning of the Christian era on a large terrace of Herod's palace, during the reign of Herod Antipas. At night, on a terrace of the palace, Salome, Herod's stepdaughter, is gazed at passionately by Narraboth, captain of the guard. ...

The Raft of the Medusa (2018)

Hans Werner Henze's "The Raft of the Medusa" is directly inspired by Théodore Géricault's famous painting. The German composer sets to music the fate of 150 people who have been shipwrecked and abandoned to their destiny. This is a radical work that fluc ...

Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf der Wartburg (2017)

Julius Caesar. Spared Parts. (2016)

Famed Italian director Romeo Castellucci re-envisions his groundbreaking 1997 production Giulio Cesare (Julius Caesar) as a series of "fragments" rearranged and positioned against each other—a clash between the ethereal and the obscure, the power of rhet ...

La Passione : Bach / Castellucci (2016)

Bach's Matthäus-Passion staged by Romeo Castellucci. ...

Arnold Schönberg: Moses und Aron (2015)

Moses und Aron is a three-act opera by Arnold Schoenberg with the third act unfinished. The 2015 Production was led by Romeo Castellucci in Paris. Moses und Aron was filmed for television by film director François-René Martin, in co-production with the P ...

Orpheus and Eurydice (2014)

Romeo Castellucci's production of Christoph Willibald Gluck's mythic opera. Concurrently via projected text, we learn the story of Els, a bedridden woman with locked-in syndrome, conscious but near-completely paralyzed. A live video feed from the hospital ...

The Four Seasons Restaurant (2012)

Inspired by Mark Rothko's refusal to complete commissioned work in New York's Four Seasons restaurant. A highly stylized, visually stunning exploration of absence, negation, and solitude. ...

Parsifal (2011)

A mythical performance from la Monnaie - Bruxelles. Parsifal is a strange and enigmatic work. At the end of his life, did Wagner wish to celebrate asceticism, which he himself had never practised? Did he fall upon his knees before the Cross, as claimed by ...

Purgatorio (2008)

The man who goes through purgatory – the "song of the earth" – is a curious being, constantly stopped by the concrete nature of the things and objects that surround him, in a depiction of his own life. This material occupies him, blocks his way, attach ...

Paradiso (2008)

Everything is focused on the canto of divine glory, to such a degree that the spectators' bodies seem to dissolve in the light, the sounds and the reflections as though they were losing their substance in a clarity so intense that it absorbs everything, th ...

Inferno (2008)

Dante's 'La Divina Commedia' is a poem in three parts about a journey to hell, purgatory and finally, paradise. Romeo Castellucci created his own free adaptation on the gigantic stage of the Cour d'Honneur in Avignon, in the palace where the first French p ...

TRAGEDIA ENDOGONIDIA - C.#11 CESENA (2004)

A nightmare which envelops the everyday tranquility of domestic life, turning it into a tragedy. Confusion between man, animal and God. ...

TRAGEDIA ENDOGONIDIA - M.#10 MARSEILLE (2004)

A human figure dressed as a woman is anatomically exposed by means of a series of photographic poses. The show is seeped from beginning to end in darkness, an allusion to the photographic negative. ...

TRAGEDIA ENDOGONIDIA - L.#09 LONDON (2004)

Divided in two parts, this episode focuses first on a Mother and a Child. The second episode focuses on Saint Paul, involved in a cruel gesture regarding the word and its ability to communicate. ...

TRAGEDIA ENDOGONIDIA - S.#08 STRASBOURG (2004)

Le Maillon Théatre is a huge pavilion originally built for international exhibitions. A number of people are present, but nothing happens. Something may happen outside, on the other side of the window which separates the theatre from the car park, but ins ...

TRAGEDIA ENDOGONIDIA - R.#07 ROME (2003)

Mussolini is surrounded by pictures torn from a history-generated dream which gradually merge into everyday reality. Harlequin is the servant of two masters. The permanence of the clergy in the Eternal City is placed under a great bell which swings without ...

TRAGEDIA ENDOGONIDIA - P.#06 PARIS (2003)

The acceleration of the tragic eventually leads to a crash as three cars fall from the ceiling in an unexpected act which leaves room only for apnea. ...

TRAGEDIA ENDOGONIDIA - BN.#05 BERGEN (2003)

The text "descends" from the goat, its language being composed of a set of phonemes based on the protein sequences contained in the body of the goat. The amino-acid sequences chosen for this next text are those responsible for cellular respiration, the gro ...

TRAGEDIA ENDOGONIDIA - BR.#04 BRUSSELS (2003)

A new born child sitting on the stage, unaware of the place wich surrounds him, together with a mask which is teaching him the alphabet. The scene shifts constantly between fiction and the reality of fiction, swapping the point of view between the stage an ...

TRAGEDIA ENDOGONIDIA - B.#03 BERLIN (2003)

The Mother drags a lifeless girl from the bed in wich she was sleeping. Sloth, mortal sadness, is the word wich seals this woman's destiny as she receives blows, luminous flows and sound stalagmites full in the face. ...

TRAGEDIA ENDOGONIDIA - A.#02 AVIGNON (2002)

In an environment coloured with talcum powder, the Soldiers of Conception escort a Child-Judge as he walks backwards across the set. When he bumps into the Tables of the Law, reality is overturned and all interiors becomes exterior. ...

TRAGEDIA ENDOGONIDIA - C.#01 CESENA (2002)

As the first character to appear – the Mother – enters a square, gold-walled room, she blends so perfectly into the background that all perspective is lost. The visual order is disarticulated by the reflection of the gold to such an extent that even th ...

Brentano (1995)

Take5* (2025)

Take5* is a filmed series of encounters between 5 artists and 2 guests who meet for the first time in a specific city to speak about Europe, festivals, the arts and their role in society. ...

DAU. Degeneration (2020)

A secret Soviet Institute conducts scientific and occult experiments on animals and human beings to create the perfect person. The KGB general and his aides turn a blind eye to erotic adventures of the director of the Institute, scandalous debauches of pro ...

Theatron. Romeo Castellucci (2018)

Theatron, the film by the multi-award-winning film-maker Giulio Boato, is an unprecedented portrait of Romeo Castellucci. Castellucci and his theatre company, the Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio, are key protagonists of avantgarde theatre. To a Vivaldi soundtra ...

Projet Castellucci (2015)

In the autumn of 2014, playwright and theatrical director Romeo Castellucci participated in the Festival d'Automne in Paris. Nicolas Klotz resumed the show, questioning its creator in a triptych dedicated to his daring creative process. ...

Inferno (2008)

Dante's 'La Divina Commedia' is a poem in three parts about a journey to hell, purgatory and finally, paradise. Romeo Castellucci created his own free adaptation on the gigantic stage of the Cour d'Honneur in Avignon, in the palace where the first French p ...

TRAGEDIA ENDOGONIDIA - C.#11 CESENA (2004)

A nightmare which envelops the everyday tranquility of domestic life, turning it into a tragedy. Confusion between man, animal and God. ...