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The Borges Labyrinth - A Sountrack Experience - Photo: Cat Bauer Fresa said, " Walking the Labyrinth is a four-movement suite that tells the metaphor of existence flowing backwards, experienced through evaporation, solidity, chaos and the origin of life."Īnd that is what it felt like - that time was flowing backwards, and I was in the same labyrinth, starting in the present and zigzagging my way back through time, feeling the same way I felt back in 2011 when it first opened and then forward and backward throughout the years when it was open for special events, and now here I was in the labyrinth again in 2021 with the music of Teatro La Fenice in my ears, the theater which has burned and resurrected and burned and resurrected throughout time - it felt so familiar and wonderful that these heavenly vibrations cannot be destroyed but resurrect and still hover in the air for more than a thousand years on the ancient Island of San Giorgio Maggiore and that I could bear witness. I became misty-eyed by the music wafting through the headphones and the gentle twists and turns of the path. This time, as I wandered the maze with a handful of others, I actually felt like I was in a movie - a real-life movie - with Teatro La Fenice Orchestra playing the score. I have walked the maze before accompanied only by the sound of birdsong and silence.

Now, 10 years later, we celebrate the opening of the Borges Labyrinth for the first time to the public with a hauntingly beautiful soundtrack composed by Antonio Fresa and performed by the Teatro La Fenice Orchestra, which was presented by Renata Codello, the dynamic new Secretary General of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Andrea Erri, the Managing Director of Fondazione Teatro La Fenice, Ilaria D'Uva, CEO and owner of D'Uva, and Antonio Fresa, the composer himself.
