Euripides' “The Bacchae,” directed by Catalan Carlus Padrissa, one of the founders of La Fura dels Baus, a company celebrated worldwide for its ability to rewrite the language of contemporary theater, opens the 56th edition of the Greek Theater Festival in Syracuse.

From the Greek Theater in Syracuse, Euripides' tragedy staged by Federico Tiezzi, starring Laura Marinoni.

Grieving and thirsting for justice for the murder of her father, committed by her mother Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus, Electra, together with her brother Orestes, embarks on a path of suffering in which there is no room for remorse or repentance, culminating in irrevocable decisions. Directed by Roberto Andò.

The goddess of love, Aphrodite, opens the tragedy and the goddess of hunting, Artemis, concludes it, but at the center of Euripides' “Hippolytus, Bearer of the Crown” (428 BC) are not the gods, but rather Phaedra's absolute, consuming human passion for her stepson, Hippolytus. Phaedra hides her love and wastes away.