MAXIMA IMMORALIA
Chamber opera for voices and instruments

Libretto and music: Orazio Sciortino – Edizioni Curci

Orazio Sciortino – Conductor

Voices:
Maria Eleonora Caminada
Giulia Peri
Giulia Zaniboni

GAMO Ensemble
Marco Facchini – Violin
Lucio Labella Danzi – Cello
Nicola Tommasini – Accordion
Fabio Fornaciari – Piano
Federico Tramontana – Percussion

Maxima immoralia is a chamber opera between eros and satire. The libretto was written in the style of that successful, daring, and irreverent literature, in prose and verse, produced between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. 

On stage there is only one character, a single woman, but with three voices, who recounts, through a structure of closed numbers, unconsummated marriages, prostitute nuns, dormant desires and daring fantasies, references to unedifying episodes in the history of the Church, with nods to the world of madrigals representative of the Baroque era, grotesque masks, and even popular cunto. 

Live music, made up of sounds suspended in time and based on unconventional sound emission techniques, in which a small ensemble together with a vocal trio takes the audience on a poetic journey full of biting irony.