On March 17, 1981, Pistoletto put on the performance Year One [Anno Uno] at the Teatro Quirino in Rome, with the inhabitants of Corniglia, Maria Pioppi and Cristina Pistoletto playing the parts. The actors, like motionless caryatids on the stage, carried architectural structures on their heads while they narrated, in the manner of a talking picture or a living sculpture, the progress of history from Cain and Abel to Romulus and Remus and from the Egyptian and Roman civilizations to the astronauts’ first flight to the moon. The piece was revised and performed again on several occasions. In 1991 at the Castello di Rivoli (From Year One to Today: A Work in Four Stanzas [Dall’Anno Uno ad oggi. Opera in Quattro Stanze]). In 1994 at the Marstall Theater in Munich (Year One - White Year [Anno Uno - Anno Bianco]) as part of the event “Tempo, Tag, Theater”. On this occasion it was enriched with new actors (the children of the early participants) and a vocal composition by Cristina Pistoletto based on newspaper articles about the crucial events of 1989. In 2009 it was performed by people from Corniglia and Cittadellarte at the Teatro Regio in Turin (Year One - Third Paradise [Anno Uno - Terzo Paradiso]). On this occasion a new piece of music was added: Mama. Inspired by the Third Paradise and composed by Gianna Nannini, it was sung chorally and with the solo voice of Elettra, Cristina Pistoletto’s daughter. In 2013 it was staged again in the Auditorium of the Louvre, on the occasion of Pistoletto’s solo exhibition “Michelangelo Pistoletto - Année 1, le Paradis sur Terre”.