An unprecedented and evocative synergy between classical music and visual arts is preparing to enliven the cultural heart of the Calabrian capital. On Friday 5 June 2026, at 6.30 pm, the prestigious Concert Hall of the Municipality of Catanzaro will host the concert-event entitled “Eros and Thanatos – Love and Death”, included in the rich programming of the 2026 Concert Season promoted by the Associazione Giovanile Musicale (A.Gi.Mus.) of Catanzaro.
The event, under the artistic direction of Laura Screnci, boasts the prestigious patronage of the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities (MiBAC) and the Municipality of Catanzaro – Department of Culture, confirming the high institutional profile and depth of the initiative. The project aims to explore, through a profound interdisciplinary dialogue, the two primordial forces that have always governed the human soul and artistic expression: the vital impulse of love and the inescapable mystery of the end.
The musical program and criticism
The absolute protagonist on stage will be pianist Sidney Rotundo, a performer of extraordinary sensitivity and refined technique, called upon to translate the dramatic tensions, passions and lyricism linked to the thematic combination of the evening onto the eighty-eight keys of the piano. The repertoire will guide the listener on an emotional journey with high dramatic density, dissecting the pages of music history that have best known how to codify the ecstasy of love and the torment of loss.
The journalist Arcangelo Pugliese will introduce the audience and outline the historical-critical coordinates of the evening. His speech will offer a precious key to understanding the evolution of the concept of Eros and Thanatos in the Western tradition, preparing the audience for conscious, intimate and immersive listening.
Visual arts: “Art and Urban Regeneration”
To enrich the cultural proposal of the evening there will be the exhibition space dedicated to the painter Anna Rita Aprile, who will present the collection entitled “Art and Urban Regeneration”. The exhibition weaves a deep conceptual link with the theme of the concert: if the dichotomy between love and death represents consummation, the passing of time and the end, the pictorial act and the regeneration of urban spaces stand as the ideal antidote, a vital, creative and constructive response to the wounds of time and abandonment.