15/06/2026
PASTA DIVA 🍝
We are delighted to announce that our music theatre play PASTA DIVA will be presented at the Pfalzbau Bühnen Ludwigshafen on 22 June 2026!!!
The culinary music theatre piece Pasta Diva by the international SONDER Ensemble invites audiences into the sonic world of the kitchen: the aroma of spices, the incisive chopping of a knife, and the bubbling of boiling water. Everyday, often unconscious gestures and sounds of cooking merge with the tones of violin, flute, accordion, percussion, and voice to create a rich symphony of the senses.
Musically inspired by the psychoacoustic soundscape of Bellini’s opera Norma, the dramaturgy of Pasta Diva follows the structure of the Italian recipe Pasta alla Norma: each stage of cooking becomes a scene, and every action a musical event. Classical acoustic instruments interpret and interact with the original sounds of the kitchen—sounds that are naturally random yet rhythmically and sonically distinctive—transforming them into a new musical composition that builds a bridge between the world of noise and the world of music.
This soundscape is interwoven with contemporary texts and poetry, including works by Federico García Lorca and Idea Vilariño, carefully selected for their resonance with the inner life of Bellini’s Norma- a character whose name also serves as a deliberate reference to the dish Pasta alla Norma. Through words and choreographed sequences, the ensemble shapes her inner conflicts and emotional states while exploring themes of love, reality, and illusion.
In Pasta Diva, theatre, contemporary music, and culinary art come together in a three-dimensional composition of movement, sound, and scent—an experience to be heard, seen, and perhaps even… tasted.
Composition: Lorenzo Romano
Direction, Composition, Stage & Light: Matias Mucchi Alonso
Sound Design: José Julián Galay
Lighting Design: Roberto Mazzaro
Costume & Set Design: Odile Hautemulle
Dramaturgy: Maria Isabel Hagen
Featuring:
Josephine Thiesen (Acting, Singing & Dramaturgy)
Ignat Khlobystin (Flute)
Carlo Sampaolesi (Accordion)
Romane Bouffioux (Percussion)
María Muñoz López (Violin)
