Graziana Borciani, Davide Calabrese, Francesca Folloni, Lorenzo Scuda and Fabio Vagnarelli are the five members of the Italian band Oblivion. They met in 2003 in Bologna's School of Musical and immediately shared an admiration for a series of master experts such as the Quartetto Cetra, Rodolfo de Angelis, Giorgio Gaber, and the Monty Python, until they developed their own original and unique style which blends modernity and tradition, vintage and topicality. They spent the following seven years working intensely with the revue and in numerous musicals, until 2009 when they gained tremendous notoriety from the general audience, thanks to the YouTube clip “I Promessi Sposi in 10 Minutes,” a brilliant micro-musical which has received over two million views thus far. This paved the way for the “Oblivion Show” which debuted at the Franco Parenti Theater in June of 2009 and immediately caught the attention of wider audience and the national press. From then on, the Oblivion embarked on a long theatrical tour in co-production with the Teatro Stabile of Friuli Venezia Giulia. Thanks to the entertaining yet rigorous direction of Gioele Dix, the Oblivion toured for two seasons with over 200 performances in the most important Italian theaters and cities. The Oblivion then debuted on national Italian TV with Serena Dandini show "Parla con me". In 2011, they were invited to be a part of the famous Tv comic production Zelig. Thousands of students rave about Oblivion’s cultural parodies, which have inevitably become a part of the youth’s slang (including “I Promessi Sposi in 10 Minutes” “Shakespeare in 6 Minutes,” Dante, Pinocchio, etc.). This sparked the manzonian “lectio-dementialis” across Italian schools and a wide-spread distribution of a book accompanied by a DVD (I Promessi Esplosi, Pendragon 2011) which features both a pedagogical and comical approach to the famous Italian classic. After tremendous popular demand, these different approaches merged in the show “I Promessi Esplosi.” In May of 2011 they awarded their fan-base with yet another original rendition in the YouTube clip “Obliviatar-Avatar in Six Minutes” produced in 3D in collaboration with Video Italia and directed by Michele Ferrari. In 2011 debuts the new theatrical show “Oblivion Show 2.0” directed by Gioele Dix and co-produced by the Teatro Stabile of Friuli Venezia Giulia, which gained a huge success with over 150 perfomances hosted in the best Italian venues.