Following its success in Cagliari , "E Morte non avverto" (And Death Will Not Have Domination ) arrives at the Teatro Comunale in Sassari. This ballad opera starring Vinicio Capossela and Pierpaolo Capovilla premieres Wednesday at 8:30 pm. In this production, the singer-songwriter weaves together theater, music, and poetry in a tale of friendship and life. The production features fifteen new songs that will be included in the singer-songwriter's next album, due out in January 2027.
The event is organized by the Carta da Musica association in collaboration with the Le Ragazze Terribili cooperative for the second edition of the Sardinia Music Hub, with the patronage of the Sardinia Region and the Fondazione di Sardegna.
The work is inspired by Renato Striglia, an avid reader of Dylan Thomas, and in particular "Under Milk Wood ," a poem for voices by the Welsh poet that Capossela's DJ and friend was translating into Italian. From this legacy, a work takes shape in which songs become theatrical action: words, music, performers, and recorded voices bring Llareggub, the imaginary seaside village created by Thomas, to life. A community of irregular characters, dreams, and obsessions through which to express innocence, plurality, and the freedom to be oneself.
At center stage, Pierpaolo Capovilla takes his place in a tub, accompanied by a cat. Memories and presences crowd around him, while the dialogue with Capossela leads the audience into a universe suspended between story and song. Musicians, opera singers, and performers give substance to this community, in a score where each piece contributes to the dramaturgy.
"Everything is born from a death. From a gathered seed that must go beyond that death to generate," says Capossela . "It's a story of friendship, a male friendship, a somewhat outmoded genre, recently brought to the screen with poetic effectiveness by Francesco Sossai in Le città di pianura. We invited Pierpaolo Capovilla to take a seat in that pool precisely to celebrate the value of this type of friendship and with it a series of things that have fallen into disuse: rock 'n' roll, the epic of failure, love for bad teachers, mutiny, sabotage, rebellion, thunderous solitude, felinity, anarchism. Around that pool crowd the ghosts of a life in the form of songs."
“And Death Shall Have No Dominion” thus collects an unfinished work and transforms it into a collective gesture: a work on loss and on what it continues to generate, through friendship, memory and the strength of the community .
