THE MARTYRDOM OF SAINT SEBASTIAN: A free adaptation of Jean-Claude Debussy's musical work: In this staging the destiny of Sebastian the martyr is not guided by Eternity, but by his unease. Sebastian is not the expression of a sound, divine logic, but a human one, that is to say fragile, mistake making. By means of an equation of concepts we have translated the faith which impregnates the character in D'Anunzio's original text (whatever that faith maybe, it is perhaps unbreakable), for the idea of will (whatever that will maybe, it is perhaps breakable). The Sebastian of La Fura dels Baus exercises his will, although he does not know how to formulate it. Our martyr could be mistaken about everything, except the pain which he feels in his desperation before the meaninglessness of a normal life. Which is, on the other hand, the only life we know. This opera has been performed in Rome, Cagliari, The Perelada Festival, Valencia and Bilbao. Premiere: 5th May 1997, Rome.