Paolo Spaccamonti & Ramon Moro Vampyr by Carl Theodor Dreyer
23.05.2026 from 18:00 to 19:00
Paolo Spaccamonti & Ramon Moro
Vampyr by Carl Theodor Dreyer (1932, 73′)
Saturday, May 23, 6:00 PM
Castello di Rivoli Theater
Paolo Spaccamonti: guitar, synth
Ramon Moro: trumpet, flugelhorn
Musicians Paolo Spaccamonti & Ramon Moro made their debut in 2018 with the soundtrack for Vampyr, which premiered at the Pesaro International Film Festival, which co-produced the film-concert with the National Cinema Museum. Australian Jim White, drummer for the Dirty Three, participated in the Turin performance that year. The project was well received and was repeated a few months later at the Palazzo Reale in the summer, as part of the Cinema District, with the participation of Canadian cellist Julia Kent.
After a hiatus of several years, the duo resumed their work and brought it back on tour. A stop at Castello di Rivoli on May 23rd will present the restored version by the Cineteca di Bologna.
Fifty years after the death of the great master of Nordic cinema Carl Theodor Dreyer, Paolo Spaccamonti and Ramon Moro transform Vampyr, one of his most celebrated films, into a visual and audio experience that brings to contemporary audiences all the mystery and unease of a dreamlike horror film that has influenced generations of filmmakers. Despite being Dreyer’s first sound film, Vampyr relies very little on dialogue, leaving room for the visionary incursions of the two musicians, who use the images to create a counterpoint aimed at exploring and deepening its most mystical and nocturnal soul.
Vampyr – The Vampire (Vampyr – The Dream of Allan Grey) is a 1932 film directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer. Also known as The Strange Adventure of David (or Allan) Gray, this is Dreyer’s first sound film, although the actors make little use of spoken language. The film is part of the hypothetical trilogy that gave rise to all vampire films. Although it follows Tod Browning’s Dracula and Murnau’s Nosferatu, Dreyer is not influenced by them but, on the contrary, draws on his own stylistic and content convictions that diverge from his previous works. Above all, the source of inspiration is no longer Bram Stoker’s novel, but rather the short stories of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu.
Prices
Show + museum admission + guided tour (4:00 PM)
€6.50 per person
A separate ticket is required for this event, even for Museum Pass holders.
Online purchase is recommended, given the theater’s limited capacity.
Tickets are also available at the box office until 5:45 pm.
Online purchases starting in May https://www.castellodirivoli.org/biglietti/
Public Programme 2026
Between spring and summer, the Castello di Rivoli Public Program showcases music, performances, shared, choreographic, and editorial practices in relation to the Museum and its architecture. The sequence of events is conceived as a body in constant motion, capable of traversing and activating the peripheral spaces of the Castle, transforming them into places of research, interaction, and experimentation. The program explores the relationship between the body and the museum space, inviting the public to experience the architecture in a choreographic manner. The building’s incompleteness thus becomes a resource: an open field of possibilities where movement, listening, and imagination continually redefine the meaning of space. A constellation of encounters rather than a succession of events, the Public Program unfolds in an ecosystem in which artists, cultural workers,