MARINAI, PROFETI E BALENE (MARINEROS, PROFETAS Y BALLENAS)

A visionary songwriter. Capossela, one of the cleverest and most eccentric musicians in Italy, spins enigmatic fantasies of both skid row Americana and mythological Italy in a grittily elegant cabaret-jazz style.

- THE NEW YORK TIMES

This latest live show from Vinicio Capossela follows in the footsteps of his new award-winning album, Marinai, Profeti e Balene, inspired by great books about the sea from writers such as Homer, Conrad and Melville. But also present in this onboard library are Dante, Céline and the Book of Job. Described variously by international critics as "a staggering achievement" and a "compilation of incredible enthusiasm and imagination", Capossela's latest work was lauded by allmusic.com as "the immediate candidate for best album of the year in almost whatever category imaginable".

For this production, Capossela is centre-stage alongside his entourage of fish-men in a setting reduced to a few bones which, during the concert, transform themselves into the stomach of a whale, an 18th century sailing ship, a deep-sea submarine, Cyclops' cave and a star-covered dome while inviting the audience to "sail the high seas" of literature in an imaginary location where the infinite voices of sailors, prophets, whales, ghosts and mermaids reverberate.

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