Via Crucis by F. Liszt, in the dramatized version for soloists, choir, piano, and two reciting voices

The Via Crucis is a work that encompasses multiple styles and languages. The unique composition of its structure has no analogues in the entire musical literature of the 1800s and represents one of the most intense and evocative pages ever dedicated to the events related to the passion and death of Jesus.

The main ingredient of the Via Crucis is the narrator, and the narration is represented by the piano, which tells, thanks to the brilliant and wonderful mastery of the author, the various events that unfold from the condemnation to the crucifixion and death of Jesus.
It is an invitation to meditate on each of the 14 stations, where man relives the acts that have stained and continue to stain with blood the existence of his contemporaries, renewing the pain of Christ. From here unfolds the calvary of man in a flickering, tragic, grotesque vision of a modern Golgotha, where man is still searching for the meaning of a lesson never learned.

Finally: “in the life of every man comes his time of ‘passion’,” writes Candoni, the author of the texts of this Via Crucis, who adds: “The auspicious wish that comes spontaneously at the conclusion of this representation is that listening to the work helps anyone to overcome the sufferings of their ‘passion’ with the strength of spirit of one who faces the unknown, conscious of traversing a minefield of their existence, while knowing that beyond the barbed wire and explosions, lies the serene expanse of the Good Easter!”

Texts by Luigi Candoni Theatre “Ora Zero”,
dramaturgy by Francesco Santin,
musical project: Stefano Da Ros

Choir: Schola Cantorum di Santa Giustina
Choir director: Fabrizio Da Ros
Piano: Valter Favero
Soprano: Laura Centeleghe
Mezzo-soprano: Claudia De Pian
Baritone: Giovanni Dal Pont
Bass: Carlo Agostini

Reciting voices: Sonia Vazza, Piero Bolzan