Theatre & Radio
Theatre & Radio
Selected Theatre and Radio Works
Writer/Director/Composer/Sound Designer/Set Designer
Astolfo 13
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Astolfo 13 is a contemporary reimagining of certain episodes from Ludovico Ariosto's "Orlando Furioso", presented through narrative modalities derived from oral poetry, Sicilian storytelling, and musical theater, interwoven into a timeless tale. Characters from different eras overlap in a layered narrative that utilizes music (performed with both traditional and digital instruments), acting, video imagery, and sound elaborations. The text varies in form and genre, embracing classical and contemporary metrics, verse and prose, and alternates between different registers by juxtaposing Ariostan octaves, contemporary Italian, and the Palermitan dialect.
The work, after winning the Poetry with Music Prize Alberto Dubito and being performed in a studio format as mise en espace on several occasions, was awarded first place in the Sicilia di Scena 2023 competition organized by the Teatro Biondo in Palermo, winning the production prize.
First Production and Premiere: Teatro Montevergini, Palermo, 21 - 30 December 2023
Second Production and Premiere: Teatro Biondo, Palermo, 30 October - 4 November2024
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Produced Teatro Biondo Stabile di Palermo
Project, Dramaturgy Giulio Musso e Federico Pipia
Written Giulio Musso
Direction, Music Federico Pipia
Percussions, Liuto, Bagpipe Michele Piccione
With Giulio Musso
Costumes Dora Argento
Sound design, Video Set Design, Live Electronics Federico Pipia
Lights Andrea Trona
Director Assistant Francesca Melluso
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The Place You Were Looking For
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The Place You Were Looking For (50’’, UK/IT/RO, 2025) is a full lenght radiodramma produced by The Synchromesh Project UK, currently under distribution.
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Rome, 1978. During the kidnapping of Aldo Moro, an American diplomat travels to Italy and is invited to a secret gathering where unconventional methods are used to uncover the statesman’s whereabouts. But what begins as a political inquiry soon unravels into a web of personal visions, fractured memories, and spectral messages. As the line between investigation, esoteric ritual, and buried trauma dissolves, the protagonist is forced to confront a past he thought long forgotten.
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Written Giulio Musso, Federico Pipia
Direction, Recordings, Sound Design, Music Federico Pipia
CAST
Ernesto Tomasini as Thomas Schmidt
Lucy Sermanni as Anne Schmidt
Victoria James as Martha Schmidt
Gigi Borruso as Aldo Moro
Maziar Firouzi as Undersecretary Salina
Dario Muratore as Munari
Luigi Rausa as General
Francesca Melluso as Laura
Victoria Sweet as Radio Journalist
Federico Pipìa as Colonel Dall'Ara
Ignacio Andràda as Spirit
A special thanks to Mauricio Redolés for singing his song “La Calavera”
Production The Syncromesh Project
Assistant Directors Francesca Melluso and Ivan Di Vita
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Havél
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"A concert for electronics and voice that uses the space in which it is placed as a host to words, silence, and sound. Interweaving verses from the biblical Qohélet, a sonic narrative is outlined that reflects on the perception of absence, apparent change, and return."
Havél is a performance-concert by the multimedial collective Minus for voice, electronic instruments, turntables and objects, based on excerpts from the biblical text Qohélet, cut and re-edited by Federico Pipia for the voice of Valeria Girelli. Realized inside the Ex Chiesa di San Mattia in Bologna for the Officine San Mattia residency project, the performance investigates the relationship between words, phonemes, electronic and acoustic sounds, within an open space in which the musicians and the actress, accompanied by penumbra and lights, move around opening up the performance spatial dimension.
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Produced FontanaMIX Ensemble
Dramaturgy, Sound Direction, Lights Federico Pipia
Musical Coordination Simone Faraci, Federico Pipia
Voice Valeria Girelli
Live Electronics, Other Instruments Daniele Carcassi, Simone Faraci, Federico Pipia, Niccolò Salvi, Mattia Loris Siboni
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