libretto

Sixty minutes in sixty sections.
The last Cantos are condensed in one section.

        Hell - twenty minutes, twenty sections
        Purgatory - nine minutes, nine sections
        Paradise - Thirty-one minutes, thirty-one sections

Nine hundred and seven different scenes distributed, sometimes repeated, as bellow:
- Hell: seven hundred and one scenes.
- Purgatory: one hundred and two scenes.
- Paradise: two hundred and five scenes.

Total of movie scenes used in the opera: one thousand and eight scenes from the 19th and 20th century.

Musicians

- Tenor: Enrico Caruso
- Soprano: Maria Callas

- Serguei Rachmaninoff (piano)
- Claudio Arrau (piano)
- Claude Debussy (piano)
- Maurice Ravel (piano)
- George Gershwin (piano)
- Pablo Casals (cello)
- Glenn Gould (piano)
- Arturo Michelangelo Bennedetti (piano)
- Jacha Heifetz (violin)

- John Cage (percussion)
- Tohru Takemitsu (piano)
- Luciano Berio (piano)
- Raymond Scott (electronics)
- David Tudor (piano)
- Hans Joachim Koellreutter (percussion)
- Olivier Messiaen (piano)
- Gyorgy Ligeti (piano)
- Iannis Xenakis (piano)
- Paul Hindemith (piano)
- George Antheil (piano)
- Artur Schnabel (piano)
- Michael Pugliese (percussion)
- Otto Luening (electronics)

- Allen Ginsberg (voice)

- Charlie Parker (alto sax)
- Rahsaan oland Kirk (transversal flute)
- Dexter Gordon (tenor sax)
- Stan Getz (alto sax)
- Chet Baker (trumpet)
- Cannonball Adderley (alto sax)
- Eric Dolphy (transversal flute and sax)
- Duke Ellington (piano)
- Thelonious Monk (piano)
- Bud Powell (piano)
- Ben Webster (tenor sax)
- Miles Davis (trumpet)
- Les McCann (piano)
- John Lee Hooker (guitar)
- Billie Holiday (voice)
- Bennie Goodman (clarinet)

- Frank Zappa (guitar)
- Jimi Hendrix (guitar)

Voices (spoken):

- Marcel Duchamp
- Jack Kerouak

Personages (actors):
- Marcel Duchamp
- Fritz Lang
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Albert Einstein
- Mahatma Gandhi
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
- Robert Kennedy
- Richard Nixon
- Glauber Rocha
- Grace Kelly
- Giuletta Massina
- Amedeo Nazari
- Federico Fellini
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Spencer Tracy
- Burt Lancaster
- Richard Widmark
- Marlene Dietrich
- Judy Garland
- Maximilian Schell
- Montgomerry Clift
- Humphrey Bogart
- Charlie Chaplin
- James Garner
- Yves Montand
- Toshiro Mifune
- Françoise Hardy
- Stanley Kubrick
- Arthur C. Clarke
- Clark Gable
- Robert Wise
- Georges Méliès
- Louis Armstrong
- Frank Sinatra
- Bing Crosby
- Peter Sellers

- Mao Zedong
- Lee Oswald
- Joseph Stalin
- Benito Mussolini
- Adolf Hitler

Personages (as Dante, alive and death):
- Emanuel Pimenta
- Fred Jordan
- Dove Bradshaw
- Alice Verostko
- Arthur Loeb
- Bernard Kirshenbaum
- Abraham Lincoln
- Carl Sagan
- Winston Churchill
- Dan Shechtman
- Albert Einstein
- Emanuelle Leone
- Lino Federico
- Ferruccio Maria Fatta
- Oscar Wilde
- Frida Kahlo
- Nina Zaretskaia
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Haron Cohen
- Helena Blavatski
- Duke Ellington
- Martin Luther King
- Jorge Lima Barreto
- Jorge Medauar
- Katsuhiro Yamaguchi
- Luiz Melo
- Nelson Freire
- Muhamad Ali
- Ravi Shankar
- William Anastasi
- Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
- Igor Strawinski
- Tom Hamilton
- Renzo Tieri
- Daniele Crippa
- plus anonymous people

The entire path goes from Virgil - the reason - to Beatrice - the love: a process from the world of symbols to the world of qualities. In this sense, Dante is a reaction against the emergence of the number-quantity, the appearance of paper, the future plan perspective, and in favour of the number-quality. It also is a permanent questioning about reason and desegregation processes - walking in the direction of a universe of total integration: qualia. Two types of creativity: action in destruction, the mythological figure of Ares designing the Hell; in the other side, Paradise, love and art, even as a criticism of culture.

HELL
Nine circles divided in two great systems: high and low hell.

High hell - the five first circles: where the spirits who failed by incontinence. (Non-intention)
Low hell - four next circles: spirits who intentionally fell. (Intention)

The nine circles are oriented to the centre of the Earth. All them are disposed in declination, oriented to a deep central well.

1. Entrance of the Hell
- Darkness, night, no vision
- Three beasts: lynx, lion and wolf
- Everything starts in the night - and so, Virgil - the reason - must lead Dante.

2. First circle
-	21:00
-	Large circle.
-	Entrance. A castle with seven walls. The seven walls are seven virtues:
              o	Four moral virtues
                                       Attention
                                       Justice
                                       Power
                                       Calm

              o	Three intellectual virtues:
                                        Intelligence
                                        Science
                                        Wisdom

3. Second circle
- 22:00
- At the entrance there is judge of the Hell: king Minos.
- Luxury is condemned.

4. Third circle
- 23:00
- People condemned for taste - gluttony - and olfaction - perfume.
- Eternal rain, mixed with ice and snow.
- Cerberus.

5. Fourth circle
- Midnight
- Greed.
- The Pope.
- Tourbillion, vortex.

6. Fifth circle
- 1:00
- Dark grey.
- Huge wall, falling stars. Around the wall there is a lake with dark waters. The place where the suicides are. The boat crosses the lake producing a wake. Many screams. Sudden cut. Snakes. Wind.

7. Sixth circle
- 2:00
- City. The limits of the city are large round stones.

8. Seventh circle
-	3:00
-	Violence in three different kinds:
        o	Against the next, in things and in people
        o	Against himself, in things and in people
        o	Against God, in people, in Nature and in Art
-	The sphere is saved by Minotaur.
-	River of blood - people condemned for violence against the next.
-	Forest of suicides - dark jungle, almost completely black, without fruits.
-	Desert with a continuous and slow rain of fire. No wind.
-       Where there are the people who acted against their own bodies, who destroyed the Nature,
        who devoted only to entertainment.
-	Scorpions, snakes, assassins, suicides, plagiarists.

9. Eighth circle
- 4 :00
- Stone. Metallic dark colours.
- Fraudulent, non-trustful people.
- This circle is divided in ten circular fosses.
- In the centre there is a well, and a profound lake.
- Castles with observatory towers like concentration camps.

10. First fosse
- External: seducing working for third parties.
- Internal: seducing by their own initiative.

11. Second fosse
- Lumpens.
- The sound of difficult breath.

12. Third fosse
- Those who makes business with religion.

13. Fourth fosse
- Illusionists, forecasters, who deceive with false predictions.

14. Fifth fosse
- The darkest place of the Hell.
- Boiling waters.
- Armed evils.
- Wars, conflicts.
- Politicians.

15. Sixth fosse
- Everybody cries.
- The hypocrites, those who have appearance to be honest.

16. Seventh fosse
- Darkness.
- Voices unable to articulate words.
- Desert.
- Desperate naked people running.
- Place of thieves.

17. Eighth fosse
- Place for those who give false advisement.
- Fire. Many stars in the sky.

18. Ninth fosse
- Place for who spread conflict and discordance.
- Blood and plague.
- Mutilated people.

19. Tenth fosse
-	Falsifiers.
-	Liars in three qualities:
        o	False in personality
        o	False in the work
        o	False in the word
-	It is the fosse of illness.

20. Ninth circle
- 5:00
- Almost sunrise.
- Deep silence. Suddenly a terrible sound of cornets. Heavy air.
- People are buried until the neck.
- It is the deepest and most isolates "hole".
- Place for the hardly punished and unhappier condemned people.
- Ice - cold. People lost pieces of their bodies because of the cold.
- Place for the traitors.
- Lucifer appears - he has three faces, opposed to the divine trinity: power as impotence; knowledge as ignorance; and love as hate.
- The morning begins. The sky still is full of starts and clean.

21. Anti-purgatory
- 6:00
- Morning. Sunrise.
- The sky is deep blue sapphire. For the first time it is possible to see the planet Venus.
- Antarctic - South Pole.
- There are the people who died for freedom.
- The sunrise is red. White light.
- There is a sing, which is suddenly interrupted.
- Here, the condemned are shadows. Victims of violent death.
- It is raining.
- There are caves, valleys, and mountains - a magnificent valley. Three bright stars.
- Serpents and insects - appear and disappear. They appear with a threatening position and soon disappear.
- There is an eagle making circles in the sky.
- There is a great fire.

22. Purgatory
- 7:00
- A great stair ascending to an entrance. A mountain. There is no rain, no snow, neither clouds nor wind.

23. First circle of the Purgatory
- Sound of a closing door.
- Tortuous road, like waves.
- A white marble mountain with images of faces.
- Seven chorus singing on an arc.
- Here there are the condemned for have wasted their opportunities in live.
- Lucifer appears very quickly.

24. Second circle
- Another long stair.
- It is the circle of the envious.
- The walls have a rocky surface, stone colour. Two souls, two shadows.
- Light rays on the water - like a mirror.
- It is the middle of the morning. Time flies quickly.

25. Third circle
- Again night.
- Deep darkness, no moonlight.
- Here there are the condemned the envious who were oriented to material goods.

26. Fourth circle
- Voices.
- Love as the generator of good and evil.
- The Moon appears.

27. Fifth circle
- Subtle voice.
- Sunrise again.
- A woman symbolizing the greed, the gluttony and the luxury.
- Sweet and fascinating sound.
- People are glued to the earth.
- Greed: a rain of tears.
- Earthquake.

28. Sixth circle
- Gluttony.
- But we see extremely thin people. There is no food.
- Narrow path, a curtain of fire at the left side. At the right side there is nothing: empty space.

29. Seventh circle
- Luxury and sodomites. Fire.
- Burning sphere.

30. Before the Paradise
- White, gold, red. Sunrise.
- Slowly everything is transformed into magnificent stars in the sky. It is the entrance of the Eden forest, which is alive and dense.
- Sunlight. Sweet wind. Small river.
- A woman singing and collecting flowers. Everything very sensual. Four animals. Gryphons. Three women: charity, faith and hope. Other four women: justice, power, temperance and prudence. Two old physicians.
- Virgil (the reason) disappears in the middle of the wave of love, from where Beatrice appears.
- A river.
- Beatrice's eyes.
- Bright eyes.
- The image of Beatrice dominates all other senses.
- Profound silence.
- Flight machine, a vesper. A fracture in the floor opens: earthquake.
- Seven nymphs sing.

31. Paradise - First Canto
- Spring.
- Sounds.
- Full Moon.

32. Second Canto
- Incredible velocity.
- Starchy sky.
- A nebula. Female lips - smile. Galaxies.
- Light - sidereal space.
- Transparency.
- Mirrors reflected each other. The eye and the pupil, bright in the eyes. Stars.

33. Third Canto
- Transparency.
- Water.
- Women's faces.

34. Fourth Canto
- Women.

35. Fifth Canto
- The planet Mercury is more luminous.
- Thousands of enlightened souls.

36. Sixth Canto
- Important personages of the political world.

37. Seventh Canto
- The magic of the human being.

38. Eighth Canto
- Light.
- Dance and clouds.
- Everything is turning in circles.
- Circular nature, from atoms to the Universe.

39. Ninth Canto
- Beatrice's eyes are closed.
- Human singing.
- Light.
- Ocean, Mediterranean sea, Earth Planet.

40. Tenth Canto
- The life on Planet Earth.
- Nine musical notes.
- The woman's beauty.
- Five rays of light.
- Eight rays of light.
- Sunrise again.

41. Eleventh Canto
- Twelve sages.
- Immobility.
- Simplicity, poverty and purity.

42. Twelfth Canto
- A big wheel. Voices. Tubes.
- A Castle.
- Philosophers, pacifists, educators, orators and logicians.

43. Thirteenth Canto
- The imagination, the memory.
- Ursa Major.
- Again circle - everything rounding.
- Two galaxies turning in circle.
- Ice and snow.
- Everything turns in circles with astonishing velocity.
- Suddenly silence: Light.
- Art.
- Artworks.
- Geometrical questions.

44. Fourteenth Canto
- The water turning in circles.
- Large circles.
- Voice: Beatrice.
- Rain.
- A melody.
- Images of people who lived in the past: memory.
- Beatrice is extremely beautiful.
- Smile.
- Peace.
- Two rays of light.
- Milk Way.
- A cross: one point.

45. Fifteenth Canto
- Falling starts.
- Beatrice's eyes are very close.
- Words, sometimes not understandable. The limit of knowledge.
- Quality - qualia.
- Beatrice's lips. She smiles.

46. Sixteenth Canto
- Wind.
- A column of smoke.
- Fantastic forms.
- Diversity of cultures, races, markets, movements and bodies. No nationalism. All peoples together, living in peace.

47. Seventeenth Canto
- The future - reflections about.
- A mirror of gold.

48. Eighteenth Canto
- Light rays on Beatrice's eyes.
- A big tree that never lost its leaves.
- A cloud made of fire - warriors.
- Other lights.
- Beatrice in Dante's eyes appears as letters.
- Lights detach the letters D, I and L
- Thirty-five vowels and consonants appear. The incident light detaches letters as to show DILIGITE IUSTITIAM: love justice.
- Then, new words are formed: QUI IUDICATIS TERRAM: you who governs the world.
- The lights concentrate on the letter M - Dante considered monarchy as the best system of government.
- Letters are enlightened again as to show the most fantastic predictions.
- Later, the letter M is again detached and it is transformed in an eagle.

49. Nineteenth Canto
- The eagle speaks to Dante.
- It shows him the entire process of Nature - from the frontiers of the Universe to the seas, rivers and forests; but also, and in parallel, to the life in cities, to the social questions.

50. Twentieth Canto
- Suddenly, everything becomes light.
- Brilliant stones.
- Murmur of a river that sounds like a string musical instrument.

51. Twenty-first Canto
- The sky in Saturn.
- Golden lights.
- There are no longer sings or smiles. Everything is peace and detachment.
- A tremendous cry.

52. Twenty-second Canto
- Souls that made something in their lives.
- Social action.

53. Twenty-third Canto
- Beatrice's face is transformed into billions of points of light.
- Everything becomes surrounded by billions of points of light.
- A magnificent Sun.
- Clouds.
- A flash falls on earth. Eyes open. Lips - smile. A rose becomes light. Melody.

54. Twenty-fourth Canto
- A clock dial. Time goes.
- People dance.
- Circles turning in different velocities.
- Heavy rain. Tempest.
- Strong light.
- Enlightened rain - scintillating stars.

55. Twenty-fifth Canto
- Memory of old times.
- An intensely brilliant constellation.
- Two Suns.
- Siren. The boat stops. Three voices.
- The light is so strong that it is impossible to see anything.

56. Twenty-sixth Canto
- Rays of light on Beatrice's eyes.
- Dante is able again to see.

57. Twenty-seventh Canto
- Ninth Sky.
- The Planet Earth is turning.
- All races of the world.

58. Twenty-eighth Canto
- A flame - like a candle - appears behind.
- Mirrors.
- Sing.
- The sky turns in circles and in its centre there is a fabulous light, like a Moon in the centre of the Universe.
- Everything in rotation. Galaxies in rotation.
- Wind.
- Nebulas.

59. Twenty-ninth Canto
- The Sun and the Moon.
- A moment of silence.
- Crystals.
- Light.

60. Thirtieth Canto
- Many stars.
- The beauty of Beatrice.
- The intellectual world.
- A river of light surrounded by flowers. A hill with many flowers. A lake, a mirror.
- A yellow rose.
- The first garden.

Thirtieth-first Canto
- The Second Garden

Thirtieth-second Canto
- The Third Garden

Thirtieth-third Canto
- Everything like a dream. Snow and sun - wind and leaves, metabolism. The intellect, the concepts. Poetry, music, art and architecture
- Beatrice!

End of the Opera.