ACCABADORA / FRANCESCO FILIDEI / FESTIVAL D’AIX—EN—PROVENCE
Wed 08 Jul
|Théâtre du Jeu de Paume
Opera, World Premiere. Based on the celebrated novel by Michela Murgia. in Accabadora, Zia Bonaria is an accabadora: a seamstress by day, she weaves the thread of life; and standing in for the Fates at night, she cuts it, putting an end to prolonged agonies.
Time & Location
08 Jul 2026, 17:00
Théâtre du Jeu de Paume, 21 Rue de l'Opéra, 13100 Aix-en-Provence, France
Info / Tickets
Info/Tickets:
https://festival-aix.com/en/programmation/opera/accabadora
About Accabadora -
Sardinia in the 1950s. A village still steeped in ancestral traditions. As is custom, Maria, the youngest child in an overly large family, is adopted by Tzia Bonaria, who has no children of her own. Feared and respected, Bonaria is an accabadora: a seamstress by day, she weaves the thread of life; and standing in for the Fates at night, she cuts it, putting an end to prolonged agonies. Will Maria accept her role as the daughter of this last mother, with all that it entails? Michela Murgia’s spellbinding novel, a vibrant tale of the whispering of souls, awakened in Francesco Filidei a powerful desire for opera: aware of how much he owed his vocation to his Sardinian origins, he wanted to bestow upon this world steeped in extraordinary vocal imagery all the operatic potential it deserved. Intertwining the motifs that make up a culture…