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Ettore Majorana - Chronicle of infinite disappearances

Where’s the XXI century leading us? Our answer involved the idea of augmented reality. In a world where researches on quantum physics and tech progress are taking us far beyond our physical reality, our aim is to create an artistic link with this aspect by choosing as a subject of our opera the story of Ettore Majorana, who was a prophetical physicist for his time. Some of his studies on elementary particles and antimatter are still in wide use today. But such a genius sometimes has its negative counterweights, as he wasn’t able to deal with other human beings and at the age of 31 he decided to jump into “another dimension”. In 1938 he boarded a ferry to Naples and disappeared. His body was never found, leading the public opinion to an almost infinite number of conjectures about his end, all of them possible and unable to confute the others. These infinite variables can be seen as a representation of his most famous theory, the “Infinite Component Equation”, which theorises the possibility for a particle to have infinite different states at the same time. That is why we got inspired by his math and chose to tell all his “infinite endings” in a non-linear story where space and time will move forward and backwards, in parallel and twisted realities. By doing this, we will remain open to all the infinite dimensions of our universe, since the principle of relativity tells us that there’s no privileged point of view in nature. So why should there be one for art?