Teatro Verdi di Pisa is set to present a new diptych featuring “La Torre” by Vincenzo De Vivo and Marco Bargagna and Poulenc’s “Le bal masqué.”

Both works will be presented for the first time in Pisa and will be directed by Stefania Panighini.

In a statement Panighini said, “The Tower of Pisa is one of those symbols from which the human animal, versed in symbolism, draws comfort and inspiration, identifying with it and seeing it as a reflection of self, and this happens precisely because it is … lopsided! Its defect has become its strong point, redrafting its history and its relationship with the city. Over the past 850 years, this tower or, rather, this bell tower has kept watch over the city, ‘mourning the dead, disrupting winds, honouring festivities, dispersing winds and inciting men,’ like a true mother. This diptych is intended to be a fresco about the Tower of Pisa, a medieval painting, like the marvellous 14th century frescoes in the cemetery, where there is neither time nor space, but everything coexists in an extraordinary composition, intermittently surreal and wondrous, in which rationality is forced to give way to amazement.”

The production will star Giacomo Medici, Giacomo Leone, Silvia Porcellini, Tommaso Martinelli, Eugenio Maria Degiacomi, and Chiara Scannapieco. Carlo Boccadoro conducts.

“La Torre” and “Le bal masqué” will be performed on Nov. 28 and 30, 2025.

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