Antonio Latella, Eugenio Barba, Romeo Castellucci at Triennale Milano

Triennale Milano's Teatro dell'Arte hosted the 'Grandi Maestri' cycle, featuring three consecutive performances by Antonio Latella, Eugenio Barba, and Romeo Castellucci. Latella's 'Aminta' reinterprets Torquato Tasso's pastoral play with minimal staging—only microphones and a rotating spotlight—and four actors reciting the original text. The production surprises with a shift to PJ Harvey and Can songs played on electric guitar. Barba's 'Una giornata qualunque del danzatore Gregorio Samsa,' his first work outside Odin Teatret, co-directed with Julia Varley and starring Lorenzo Gleijeses, adapts Kafka's 'Metamorphosis' into a dance about obsessive movement. Castellucci's 'Schwanengesang D744' features soprano Kerstin Avemo and pianist Alain Franco performing Schubert lieder on a bare stage, culminating in a provocative postlude where Avemo dons a satanic mask and disappears under the floor. The cycle ran in February 2019.