André Borelli

I Lombardi alla prima crociata (The Lombards on the First Crusade) was Verdi’s fourth opera and received its first performance at La Scala, Milan, in February 1843. The grandiloquent subject matter is fleshed-out with broad-brushed musical and dramatic effects and lavish choral scenes created a correspondingly impressive impact. A great success in Milan, it spread to the rest of Europe within a matter of only a few years.

With the arrival of an uncle, Barbara, an independent young woman, sees her life plunge into a veiled torment.

Breno's neurotic and ruled life goes into an unhealthy spiral when Verônica, a beautiful shopkeeper, appears outside his apartment to offer him an invitation.

In a student republic, seven young people share their lives in an apparently common way. A party, however, brings an event that will take down any social mask and throw the republic into its hidden rot.

Locked in the same house in quarantine, a couple shares their routine in apparent tranquility. The discovery of a secret, however, will make living together a nightmare.

Someone goes through the darkness, finds you and gives you a name: Bo. He drags you to a group that, together, celebrates your arrival. Everyone there was waiting for you. "To the light. Bo has come to save us all!" They repeat, euphoric. You are Bo. That is all you know. A name and a sentence: find a way out or join the dust.

"It's tomorrow, Chico. Can you believe it? ", says Romano to his cellmate. After so many years together, confined to that precarious iron box, the wait will finally come to an end. A few hours separates them from freedom. One will be released; the other, executed. Anyway, at sunrise, they won't be there anymore. It's their last moments, after all, it's almost morning.