Our encounter with Bastione del Castello Maniace and with the layered history of Ortigia island gives the word to Stupor mundi.

The encounter generates influences and theatrical visions in a performing and musical way. The Bastione is the farther extremity which points to the sea. It is the ideal ambience for the creation of a new path in space and time due to its storied configuration and to its crossing tracks.

Stupor mundi is also the encounter with Federico II. He is our main source of inspiration not only considering he was the mastermind of the Castello (castle) but also owing to his variegated personality. He was open and respectful towards disparate traditions and cultures, patron of art and science, friend of literati and poets of different religions, passionate about beauty without ideological boundaries.

This form of open-minded thinking mirrors for us the inter-disciplinary thinking about art. Without hierarchies the signs of art are woven together in a single composition. This creation is offered to an audience which following the route can choose its own way of reading it according to its personal empathy.