
Shortly before his death, Romitelli together with his friend Paolo Pachini and the poetess Kenka Lèkovich, resurrected the dream of a total scenic art (a furnace of sensations, they called it, an_ initiation rite_) in the manner of the Futurists: rhythms and gleams of light striking metals (for the video part), poems in iron and chrome singing of fusion with matter (Kenka Lekovich), acoustic/electric music highly amplified, filtered, spatialised, in as artificial a manner as possible. An Index of Metals bears vigorous witness to this determination to go beyond: sizzling orchestration, electric and psychedelic; a voice which plays on effects, murmurs with reverb, cackles into a megaphone, screams like a pop star; and an electric guitar score of a kind that no ‘serious’ composer has ever written, sliding across an infinite range of tones with a lightness of touch and blurring of contours.

Rossini: La Cenerentola
2001

Sternenhoch
2019

Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea
2012

Gluck: Orpheus & Eurydice @ Halle 47, Floirac
2023

Il club dei 27
2017

La Finta Giardiniera
2006

Theodora
2015

Out of the Law
2017

Complainant
2017

Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia
2018

Positive
2022

Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
2015