Theseum ensemble – Michail Marmarinos

Dimitris Dimitriadis, Insenso|Opera

“I am Countess Livia Serpieri. I turned my lover, Sergeant Franz Mahler, into the Austrian army for desertion”.
 
After I’m dying like a country, a performance that has flown the Athens Festival standard at some of Europe’s most significant cultural events, Michael Marmarinos and Dimitris Dimitriadis return with an “opera without music” inspired by Luchino Visconti’s Senso.
The Countess’s interior monologue on an erotic passion that led to humiliation and a triple betrayal—of homeland, class and lover—is performed with singular presence by a chorus of Greek actresses (with one Italian in among them).