A multimedia performance that combines theater, dance, music and art in a special homage to of one of the world's most influential poems, Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533), presented in celebration of the 500th anniversary of its pubblication and on the occasion of the 16th annual Italian Language Week in the World by the artistic project Il Ruggiero, composed of Emanuela Marcante and Daniele Tonini.
The stories and unforgettable characters of Orlando Furioso (first printed in 1516) are sung and narrated on Renaissance arias and original musical intonations, intertwined with musical arrangements of madrigals and baroque operas focused on the Furioso and in dialogue with a visual imagery that binds it to the landscape and art of Northern Italy from where il Ruggiero hails.

Introduction by Massimo Ciavolella, Director of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and professor of Comparative Literature.