ILIADE
Giuliano Peparini’s Iliad was one of the most anticipated events of the INDA’s 60th season. Over 16,000 spectators attended Giuliano Peparini’s Iliad at the Greek Theatre in Syracuse in just three days, July 4-6, 2025, a triumph that confirmed the extraordinary anticipation of the audience and the emotion aroused by this creation. The Iliad, directed and artistically directed by Giuliano Peparini, returned to the Greek Theatre of Syracuse for the season dedicated exclusively to students, from April 13th to 16th, in a special version featuring students and alumni of the INDA Academy and the Peparini Academy. Proof of its immense scope: all performances sold out two months before the premiere, confirming the audience’s exceptional anticipation for this unique creation. And of the special bond that unites Giuliano Peparini to the Sicilians. The dialogue involves movement and dance as narrative engines, the power of visual images, essential dramaturgy, and music by Giuseppe Vessicchio, which blends original compositions, classical sounds, and pop resonances to amplify every bodily and emotional vibration.
«The Iliad, for me, is a place where fragility and violence are embodied.
I wanted to transpose this founding epic into a prison universe, because a prison is a closed space where, as in Troy, rival clans face each other with no escape route.
In this universe, heroes are no longer distant figures, but recluse men, deprived of freedom and the future.
The gods, on the other hand, no longer live on Olympus: they become guardians and overseers, cold figures of a system that institutionalizes violence and manipulates destinies.
For me, the war of the Iliad is not just a military conflict: it is an internal war, a struggle of bodies and spirits, a war without exit in which the first language is that of the body.
The Iliad is perhaps the oldest European text, but it is also the most contemporary. Continue to talk to us about us, our conflicts, our fragilities. Staging it today is not only possible: it is necessary.»
Giuliano Peparini
Photo© – Franca Centaro
Un’opera per l’oggi
« For me, the Iliad is not just a tale of war, but a timeless reflection on the human being.
It is a work that speaks to us of honor, revenge, power, but also of the pain, memory and fragility that we all share —even with our enemies.
In a prison like in Troy, the clans face each other without escape. And it is in this clash that we find our humanity, our contradictions, our wounds.
Through this staging, I wanted to remember that, behind the epic, there is first of all an essential question: what does it mean to be human in the face of violence and loss?
The Iliad still holds out this mirror to us today. »
The cast:
- Vinicio Marchioni (Aedo),
- Giuseppe Sartori (Achilles),
- Gianluca Merolli (Ettore),
- Giulia Fiume (Andromache /Tethys),
- Danilo Nigrelli (Priam),
- Elena Polic Greco (Era),
- Jacopo Sarotti (Patroclus),
and numerous performers who embody Greeks, Trojans and gods in a choral and physical fresco.
Among the artists on stage, young performers from the Peparini Academy actively participate, integrated into the choirs of Greeks and Trojans (Musical Class, Special Class) with the students of the ADDA of the INDA Foundation, offering the public a new energy.
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Photo© – Franca Centaro
