Nicoletta Todesco: The Cockroach Diary

“Where are you going, little cockroach? You were smelling crumbs in a forsaken shadow just a few seconds ago, I believe…” The Cockroach Diary is a song cycle for voice, classical guitar, and electric guitar in which a cockroach becomes an artist’s unlikely muse. Released in 2025, this one-woman operetta emerged during a period of artistic stasis and slowly became an emotional space mission—beginning in intimacy, drifting into outer space, and returning to Earth changed.