Isabella Bordoni’s original text is intertwined with fragments in ancient Greek distributed thanks to the creation of an eight-channel acoustic environment. Fragments of the original text in ancient Greek form the basis for songs/lieder inspired by the musical tradition of an area between Greece, Armenia, Georgia and the metrics of these languages. The singing voice is that of Katalin Gyenis (Budapest/Paris). With her a live string quartet and sounds sampled and spread throughout the theatre.

In the play, the eight-channel acoustic environment is computer-controlled. This means that part of the sounds and voices have been sampled, i.e. recorded on a digital recorder that allows access to the date in real time via, for example, a midi keyboard. These sounds are controlled via computer thanks to software that allows all the parameters of the sound to be fixed exactly: pitch, volume, dynamics, position in space. Sandro Lombardi’s voice, for example, will be heard coming not from the stage or from the main (frontal) sound system but from any point around the audience. These points are dynamic, so it is possible to create sound displacement effects so that the audience will be inside a fluid and moving sound. This system was developed in Berlin in 1993 with the help of Hans Peter Kuhn.

The scenography is completely digital through videoprojections based on live and pre-recorded materials (shot between Magna Grecia and Mitteleuropa and post-produced at the FutureLab of the Ars Electronica Center in Linz). Buildings are evoked and with them collapses, suspensions, movements, fluctuations, tremors. Through computer graphics anamorphosis is created and the images continuously change into other images. Micro-cameras record the interpreters, the images are mixed in the direction and sent back to several screens using interactive software – created at the STEIM Foundation in Amsterdam – which allows the live management of the images. Animated films by Gianluigi Toccafondo and drawings by Oreste Zevola, who has worked with the company on the Baccanti since 1997, are also part of the materials.