Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia is inaugurating the 2017/2018 season with Karol Szymanowski’s King Roger. Set in the year 1000 in Sicily during the reign of Norman King Roger II of Hauteville, the opera is one of the most suggestive twentieth-century works. On this occasion, the musical narration – conducted by Antonio Pappano – interacts with live visual direction and projections by the video artists from MASBEDO, offering the public an immersive experience of the opera.