Be wise, taste wines and adjusts your boundless hope to the cup of life, which is small. Even as we speak cruel time flees jealous. Harvest the present day, the morrow is uncertain. Seize the day. Carpe Diem Quam Minimum Credula Postero. (Quintus Horatius Flaccus 65–8 b.C.)
Marta Gerani and Claudio Coviello, “Bella Figura”, choreo by Jiří Kylián, music by Lukas Foss (“Lento” and “Andante” from Salomon Rossi Suite), Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (“Stabat Mater Dolorosa” and “Quando Corpus Morietur” from Stabat Mater), Alessandro Marcello (“Adagio” from Oboe Concerto in D minor), Antonio Vivaldi (“Andante” from Concerto for two mandolins in G major) and Giuseppe Torelli (“Grave” from Concerti Grossi Op 8 No. 6 in G minor “Christmas Concerto”), costume design by Joke Visser, Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Italy.
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