Capossela and Capovilla join forces on a new project: "E Morte non avrà dominio". All the dates

An unprecedented pairing brings Vinicio Capossela and Pierpaolo Capovilla together on stage, the two protagonists of “E Morte non avrà dominio”, a show its authors describe as “a ballad opera”. At the heart of the project are themes like friendship, memory, and a whole constellation of values and attitudes that seem to belong to another era.

"This story, the radio drama, the songs, the Ballad Opera we're presenting here, it all stems from a death. From a seed gathered that must go beyond that death in order to generate life," says Capossela, presenting the new work, developed from the radio drama "Sotto il bosco di latte", which in turn arose from an encounter with "Under Milk Wood", the celebrated poem for voices by Dylan Thomas. "It's a story of friendship, a male friendship, a somewhat unfashionable genre, recently brought to the screen with poetic effectiveness by Francesco Sossai in 'Le città di pianura'. We invited Pierpaolo Capovilla to take his place in that tub precisely to celebrate the value of this kind of friendship, and with it a series of things that have fallen out of use: rock'n'roll, the epic of failure, the love of bad teachers, mutiny, sabotage, rebellion, roaring solitude, feline grace, anarchism. Around that tub crowd the ghosts of a life in the form of songs."

The premiere is scheduled for October 3 and 4 at the Teatro Olimpico in Rome as part of the Romaeuropa Festival, ahead of a tour that will travel through numerous Italian theatres until December.
The story is set in Llareggub, the seaside village imagined by Thomas, and takes its cue from the story of radio DJ Renato Striglia, who died in 2020. For years Striglia worked on an Italian translation of "Under Milk Wood" without managing to complete it. On stage stands a large tub, the central element of the production, in which Capovilla is "laid out as if in Noah's ark" and "is visited by the presences of the community he lived among, embodying at once Renato, Dylan Thomas and Captain Cat, the blind sailor at the heart of the story created by the Welsh poet's pen".

Regarding the meaning of the work, Capossela explains: "This is a work about innocence, about the lost Eden, about community. Thomas had thought of calling the work The Town That Was Mad…, a village collectively declared mad because everyone is simply as they are. The society of order, of law, of power fences them in so as not to spread the contagion of this form of insanity. In that room around the tub, this humanity lives on. Outside is the world we know."

Dates for "E morte non avrà dominio" (updating)

3–4 October 2026 — Rome ∙ Teatro Olimpico (Romaeuropa Festival national premiere)

9–10 October 2026 — Parma ∙ Teatro Due

13–14 October 2026 — Ancona ∙ Teatro delle Muse

21 October 2026 — Naples ∙ Teatro Augusteo

24 October 2026 — Catanzaro ∙ Teatro Politeama Mario Foglietti

28–29 October 2026 — Cagliari ∙ Teatro Massimo

1–2 November 2026 — Milan ∙ Teatro Lirico Giorgio Gaber

4–5 November 2026 — Genoa ∙ Politeama Genovese

18 November 2026 — Como ∙ Teatro Sociale

22–23 November 2026 — Turin ∙ Teatro Colosseo

2 December 2026 — Bologna ∙ Teatro Duse

5 December 2026 — Assisi ∙ Teatro Lyrick

6 December 2026 — Rimini ∙ Teatro Galli

19 December 2026 — Livorno ∙ Teatro Goldoni

21 December 2026 — Florence ∙ Teatro Verdi

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