It is also a tribute, an homage to Demetrio Stratos, one of the most significant artists of recent years, also for having been able to combine ‘highbrow’ research with pop culture. The sampled voice of Demetrio is ‘used’, allowing him to appear as a soloist in a completely new work. Metrodora is a hypertextual project (text, image, sound) that takes place in the physical space of performance and simultaneously across telematic networks. It is a fairy tale (The Wizard of Oz) taken as a reference, but in such a way as to subvert its connections—a fairy tale which, like all fairy tales, presupposes a journey, a crossing, encounters, rites of initiation seen in the light of a solid American pragmatism. The Wizard of Oz represents the meeting between the European tradition of fable and the ‘new frontier’: from a dramaturgical point of view, it is precisely the idea of the journey that constitutes the body of the entire work. A journey also through the world of drawings by Oreste Zevola (the wizard?) of powerful symbolism in his representation of the pathological and ecstatic body.