# DOMENICO INGENITO ## The Demons. An excerpt # DOMENICO INGENITO ## The Demons. An excerpt ### Festival - [Upcoming events](https://www.operaestate.it/en/festival-eng/agenda) - [Dance](https://www.operaestate.it/en/festival-eng/dance) - [theater](https://www.operaestate.it/en/festival-eng/theater) - [Music](https://www.operaestate.it/en/festival-eng/music) - [Opera](https://www.operaestate.it/en/festival-eng/opera) - [BMotion 2026](https://www.operaestate.it/en/festival-eng/bmotion-eng) - [Attività collaterali](https://www.operaestate.it/en/festival-eng/attivita-collaterali) - [Minifest](https://www.operaestate.it/en/festival-eng/minifest) - [Cinema](https://www.operaestate.it/en/festival-eng/cinema) [Acquista Biglietto](https://www.vivaticket.com/it/ticket/i-demoni/307772) 24 August 2026 | 8.30 p.m. CSC San Bonaventura, Bassano del Grappa Price single ticket € 8 / 10-show pass B.Motion € 50, reservation recommended Accessibility ![](https://www.operaestate.it/images/icon/accessiblita.png) --- Share this page [](https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.operaestate.it%2Fen%2Ffestival-eng%2Fbmotion-eng%3Fview%3Darticle%26id%3D5180%3Adomenico-ingenito-2%26catid%3D8) [](https://x.com/intent/post?text=DOMENICO%20INGENITO%20%20-%20OperaEstate&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.operaestate.it%2Fen%2Ffestival-eng%2Fbmotion-eng%3Fview%3Darticle%26id%3D5180%3Adomenico-ingenito-2%26catid%3D8) --- *I demoni. Un frammento* freely extracted from *I demoni* di *Fëdor Dostoevskij* text and stage direction of the play reading *Domenico Ingenito* with *Domenico Ingenito, Michele Eburnea* costume consulation *Anna Verde* sound and music dramaturgy *Giulio Nocera* **National Preview** Dostoevsky’s *The Demons*, published between 1871 and 1872, was written as an immediate reaction to a news story: in November 1869, in Moscow, members of a terrorist cell had murdered one of their own, suspected of treason. Dostoevsky intended to write a novel-pamphlet about it, caricaturing the new generation of nihilists, but also denouncing the irresponsible “fathers” with whom he himself had sympathized before his arrest and sentence to hard labor. But over time, the satirical pamphlet became a prophetic novel of ideas and a profound reflection on the search for God and Evil. Domenico Ingenito reinterprets and revisits the novel, focusing on the struggle between the different generations; those revolutionaries who dreamed of a different Russia become the radical thinkers of contemporary revolutions, and Dostoevsky’s nineteenth century feels closer to our own.