Construction work has been completed on the mega stage in Melpignano on which, on August 27, guest artists and the Popular Orchestra La Notte della Taranta directed by maestro Dardust will perform at the 25th edition of La Notte della Taranta. An important date that is celebrated with the audience returning once again to the square of the Ex Convento degli Agostiniani where the imposing 17-meter high ferrous steel structure has been set up. The stage on which the artists will perform is 33m x19.
Big numbers for the production of the big concert and for the realization not only of the structure, but also for the videoled set-up: 200sqm. distributed between stage and audience and managed by 2 media servers and 1 video director, all with 4k resolution. The high technology with the exhibitions of lights and shots will make the longest and most awaited night of the summer unique.

Suggestions of colors and lights on the stage also with the illuminations made by Mariano Light: 600sqm of lights and 38 thousand LEDs that will compose a unique and extraordinary frame around a very special picture. A journey that starts from tradition and touches the notes and futuristic nuances of electronics also through a symbol of the tradition of Salento festivals: the luminarias. A "space" journey that will ideally furrow the perspective galleries of the luminarias that animate the patronal festivals of Salento. Predominant colors on stage: white and small blue hints. On this project signed by Mariano Light 12 people worked for 15 days.

And in edition No. 25 there is a novelty, the visual project "W il cielo, il mare, la terra," developed by Galattico with the guidance of Mauro Bubbico, coordination Filippo Rossi and Selene Sanua. Visual is composed of a complex system of visual languages: illustration, pattern, photography and cinema comment and amplify what is happening on the stage, guide the audience to discover the sense of the marvelous, immerse them in a magical atmosphere, rediscovering festive rituals and symbolism originally linked to production cycles that have now disappeared, taking on new meanings and functions or amplifying some latent and secondary ones. The images, of different nature and origin, are animated, re-combined with each other in harmony with the other performance materials. The scenes are organized to represent the salient moments of the story told, and the images provide support for the music and background for the dance troupe. The main intent is to guide the audience to rediscover the sense of festivity, to invite them to have a totalizing experience of reality in which, through sound, images, colors, words and the body, the creative power of nature is affirmed and the founding events of the cosmos and life are celebrated.