Seventy Angels on the Façade is a large-scale performance created and produced by Robert Wilson for the 70th anniversary of Domus magazine, presented at the Nuovo Piccolo Teatro in Milan. Built “step by step” over the course of a year between New York and Milan, the work was conceived as a layered theatrical composition shaped by Wilson’s spatial thinking: a sequence of images, texts, sound, and stage actions that moved through different periods, atmospheres, and visual worlds rather than following a linear narrative.

As described in Domus, the piece functioned as a celebratory and fragmentary portrait of the magazine’s history and cultural imagination, combining dramaturgical sections, poetic texts, projections, design references, and a dense sound environment. The result was a visually and sonically immersive performance in which architecture, memory, and theatrical artifice converged into a shifting stage landscape.

Created and Produced by: Robert Wilson
Scripts and Theatrical Production (editing): Rosellina Archinto, François Burkhardt, Orio Buffo
Dramaturgy (1979–88 section): Alessandro Mendini
Scripts on Gio Ponti: Lisa Licitra Ponti
Poetic Texts: Christopher Knowles
Visual and Theme Research: Luigi Spinelli
Lights: A.J. Weissbard
Sets and Images: Peter Bottazzi
Costumes: Jacques Reynaud
Sound: Peter Cerone