L'Opuscolo (2025)

What if the most crucial object in human history ended up in the hands of someone on the lowest rung of the social ladder?

L’Opuscolo, a single-scene drama for string quartet, mezzo-soprano, and live electronics, explores this question, assigning the singer the sole role of a beggar who claims to possess a pamphlet containing the solutions to all of humanity's problems.

Her daily efforts to reveal the contents of the pamphlet and the resulting frustration of receiving no consideration whatsoever from others lead her to a gradual loss of sanity. The drama itself aims to capture this specific moment: the onset of madness and, consequently, the loss of absolute truth.

Present on stage alongside the beggar are 4 loudspeakers, which play an active role in the story. Gripped by madness, the woman will dialogue with them, imagining they are people who want to interact with her. Thanks to a lavalier microphone positioned on the singer's wrist and an algorithm correlating the signal coming out of the loudspeakers with the signal captured by the lavalier itself, the electronics are continuously modified, conveying the idea of an increasingly rampant madness.