Il Processo (Der Prozess)

director

by Alberto Colla

freely based on Der Prozess by Franz Kafka

Winner Opera of the International Competition organized for the Verdian Centenary

World Premiere

Teatro Valli, Reggio Emilia, 2002

Teatro alla Scala – Piccolo Teatro Strehler, Milano, 2002

director Daniele Abbado

associate director Boris Stetka

set design Gianni Carluccio

costume design Nanà Cecchi

lighting design Guido Levi

conductor Enrique Mazzola

with George Mosley, Doina Dimitriu, Paolo Rumetz, Annie Vavrille, Ezio Di Cesare, Nicola Ulivieri, Enrico Iori, Lorenzo Muzzi, Gregory Bonfatti

“The receiver gave out a buzz of a kind that K. had never before heard on a telephone. It was like the hum of countless children’s voices – but yet not a hum, the echo rather of voices singing at an infinite distance – blended by sheer impossibility into one high but resonant sound which vibrated on the ear as if it were trying to penetrate beyond mere hearing.”

Franz Kafka, The castle

“Reading is like listening to music.”

Franz Kafka, Letters