Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda

In celebration of the 400th anniversary of Monteverdi’s operatic scena Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (The Combat of Tancredi and Clorinda), director Fabio Cherstich and choreographer Philippe Kratz have reconceived the piece, which translates the struggle between a man and a woman fatally bound by love and death into a powerful contemporary dance performance. 

 

Aligning with the composer’s original vision, this contemporary interpretation of a 'sacred text' of Italy’s cultural heritage combines physical action, instrumentation and voices. 

 

Produced by Centro Coreografico Nazionale/Aterballetto

 

 

 

Direction and visual: Fabio Cherstich 

Choreography and Movement Direction: Philippe Kratz 

Music: Claudio Monteverdi 

Dancers: Gador Lago Benito, Alberto Terribile 

Tenor: Matteo Straffi 

Harpsicord: Deniel Perer 

 

Co-productions: Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto, Teatro Regio di Parma/Festival Verdi, Torinodanza Festival - Teatro Stabile di Torino – Teatro Nazionale, Ghislierimusica - Centro di Musica Antica. 

 

This London date is in partnership with the Italian Cultural Institute in London 

The project is part of Italia Danza, a co-project by the Direzione Generale per la Diplomazia Pubblica e Culturale del Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale (Directorate General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation) and CCN/Aterballetto to promote Italy’s artistic heritage abroad. 

 

The CCN/Aterballetto, Italy’s first National Choreographic Center since 2022, is a hub of creativity and innovation for contemporary dance, based in Reggio Emilia, in Northern Italy. Founded around the Aterballetto company—established in 1977 and now composed of 16 dancers engaged in productions by internationally renowned choreographers and the reinterpretation of a curated repertoire—the CCN/Aterballetto embraces a diversity of styles and languages. Cosmopolitan, curious, and dynamic, its productions are acclaimed in major theaters and festivals in Italy and worldwide. 

 

Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda was conceived in 2024 as a dance and live music project for the promotion of Italian cultural heritage, commissioned and coordinated by the Direzione Generale Musei (Directorate General for Museums), curated by the Musei Nazionali di Perugia – Direzione Regionale Musei Nazionali Umbria (National Museums of Perugia – Regional Directorate for National Museums of Umbria), and CCN / Aterballetto, with the support of the Direzione Generale Spettacolo dal vivo (Directorate General for Live Performance).