La rappresentazione della Passione

Parade with presentation of the characters. Escorted by young torchbearers and some horses, more than 150 characters in costume parade from the church of the Madonna del Carmelo towards the center of the town, where they are presented to the public by the parish priest of Coldrerio, Don Paolo Miara. The short portraits allow us to frame the protagonists of the story from a historical perspective.

Stage representation. The events of the Passion with the various dramatic scenes take place against the natural backdrop of the Ciossetto hill: it all begins with the plot, hatched by the leaders of the Sanhedrin, against Jesus, who is captured in the Garden of Gethsemane and made to appear before the high priests Annas and Caiaphas, creating confusion among the apostles, especially Peter who will deny him and the traitor Judas Iscariot. Jesus is then brought before the Roman procurator, Pontius Pilate, who will condemn him after having been flogged and sent to Herod, a completely unprecedented meeting, because it is not present in the Gospels, but reconstructed from apocryphal versions. The ascent to Calvary finally preludes the scene of the crucifixion.