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April 22nd, 2016. Extract from the concert/performace.

William Kentridge’s project for TEVERETERNO, Triumphs and Laments (2016), is a large-scale, 550 meter-long frieze, erased from the biological patina on the travertine embankment walls that line Rome’s urban waterfront. Exploring dominant tensions in the history of the Eternal City from past to present, more than eighty figures, up to 10 meters high, represent Rome’s greatest victories and defeats from mythological time to present, forming a silhouetted procession on Piazza Tevere, between Ponte Sisto and Ponte Mazzini.

The work opened in April 2016 with the premiere of a theatrical event created in collaboration with composer Philip Miller, featuring live shadow play and two processional bands composed by more than forty musicians and vocalists performing against the backdrop of the frieze.

For more information about Triumphs and Laments, please visit TEVERETERNO online at: http://www.tevereterno.it.