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COLTELLACCI – THEATRE, CINEMA, PAINTING

COLTELLACCI – TEATRO, CINEMA, PITTURA

Curated by Vittoria Crespi Morbio

with Roberto Capucci, Filippo Crivelli, Jaja Fiastri, Elio Pandolfi, Bruno Piattelli, Francesco Rosi, Franca Valeri, Lina Wertmüller, Francesco Zito.

 

in the course of over forty years Giulio Coltellacci (Rome, 1916-1983) left his mark in every area of the performing arts: he conferred dignity and brilliance to musical comedy, he was movie star’ costume designer, he signed the sets for films, for theatre, ballet, and opera. He builts stage machinery, he painted on canvas and theatre backdrops. He illustrated journals, imagined and created fashion shows and work areas, designed and made furnishings for private residences and public premises. A pragmatic artist without a hint of snobbism, Coltellacci could switch elegance, the same amazing, knowledge of what a stage is like, the same unfailing imagination. This monograph retraces for the very first time his extraordinary career.

 

Publisher: Amici della Scala – Grafiche Step Editrice

Text: Italian and English

Pages: 270 (284 pictures)

Format: 25 * 34,5 cm

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THEATRE PROGRAMME “ATTILA” (OPERA SEASON 2018/2019)

THEATRE PROGRAMME “ATTILA” (OPERA SEASON 2018/2019)

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SHOPPING BAG “ATTILA”

Shopping bag

 

Dimensions: 40*42*8 cm
Composition: 100% cotton

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SHOPPING BAG “LA SCALA 1778” – SPECIAL EDITION

Shopping bag

 

Dimensions: 40*42*8 cm
Composition: 100% cotton

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ATTILA (GIUSEPPE VERDI)

ATTILA

(1845)

Giovanni Battista Parodi (bass) – Attila

Susanna Branchini (soprano) – Odabella

Roberto de Biasio (tenor) – Foresto

Sebastian Catana (baritone) – Ezio

Cristiano Cremonini (tenor) – Uldino

Zyian Atleh (bass) – Leone

Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Regio, Parma

Conductor: Andrea Battistoni

 

Teatro Regio di Parma, October 2010

 

Duration: 118 minutes (extra: introduction to Attila [10.00])

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ATTILA (GIUSEPPE VERDI)

ATTILA

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Ruggero Raimondi Sherrill Milnes Carlo Bergonzi Cristina Deutekom Lamberto Gardelli

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MESSA PER ROSSINI

MESSA PER ROSSINI

Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano Riccardo Chailly Coro del Teatro Carlo Felice Veronica Simeoni María José Siri Giorgio Berrugi Simone Piazzola Riccardo Zanellato

The Messa per Rossini is a Requiem Mass composed to commemorate the first anniversary of Gioachino Rossini’s death. It was a collaboration among 13 Italian composers, initiated by Giuseppe Verdi. The composition was intended to be performed on 13 November 1869 in the Basilica of San Petronio, Bologna, where Rossini grew up and spent a large part of his life.

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DE CHIRICO ALLA SCALA

DE CHIRICO ALLA SCALA

Curated by Vittoria Crespi Morbio

 

Young Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978) made his debut in the theatre world with the Ballets Suédois and the Ballets Russes in the 1920s. At the time he believed that opera was a genre on the wane. And yet he would devote a considerable part of his artistic career to the musical theatre, signing dozens of performances for the leading Italian institutions. Ranging from echoes of Metaphysical painting to a conception of a neo-classical and neo-baroque ‘Grand Théâtre’, his work as a set and costume designer was a perpetually evolving challenge, now won and then lost, but is above all the secret and problematic self-portrait of an outstanding figure in 20th-century art.

 

Publisher: Amici della Scala – Grafiche Step Editrice

Text: Italian and English

Pages: 224

Format: 12,7 * 17,6 cm

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KOKKOS ALLA SCALA

KOKKOS ALLA SCALA

Curated by Vittoria Crespi Morbio

 

Scenographer, costume designer, and director, Yannis Kokkos is one of the leading figures in contemporary theatre. Greek by birth and Parisian by choice, he developed a highly original conception of dramaturgy, starting from drawing, the matrix of the creative idea: drawing whereby the stage action unfolds, in its perspectives, like an ongoing flow. Essential rather than decorative, the stage according to Kokkos enchanted the audience of La Scala in a historic version of Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande and masterpieces by Wagner, Gluck, and Pizzetti. Elegance and simplicity are steeped in a symbolic intensity echoing the theatre of ancient Greece.

 

Publisher: Amici della Scala – Grafiche Step Editrice

Text: Italian and English

Pages: 192

Format: 12,7 * 17,6 cm

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OPPO ALLA SCALA

OPPO ALLA SCALA

Curated by Vittoria Crespi Morbio

 

Extremely powerful, feared, and respected under the Fascist regime, Cipriano Efisio Oppo (1891-1962) was almost forgotten after the war, and today his name and his work are scarcely known. He was harmed by his political credo that led him to become a deputy in Parliament and director of the Quadriennale romana, a tireless organiser of events. Yet Oppo was a complex, many-sided figure, willing to promote ‘rebellious’ artists and developing a poetics including his theatre work as scenographer and costume designer that remains a legacy worthy of attention. His stagings at La Scala, in Rome, in Florence, partake of the tradition of Italian painting and assert an Olympian serenity, unperturbed before the tragedies of History.

 

Publisher: Amici della Scala – Grafiche Step Editrice

Text: Italian and English

Pages: 200

Format: 12,7 * 17,6 cm

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METLICOVITZ ALLA SCALA

METLICOVITZ ALLA SCALA

Curated by Vittoria Crespi Morbio

 

Aloyal and determined Triestine, Leopoldo Metlicovitz (1868-1944) was a key figure in the elaborate advertising system of Casa Ricordi and played a role in shaping its image. Posters, playbills, postcards, drawings to be offered to theatre subscribers, illustrations on the covers of scores, signs advertising a product, on each and every single thing Metlicovitz bestowed his clear, classical mark. But he did not stop there: his graphic works influenced the spirit of his time, steeped the collective imaginary, and shaped a perfect world of opera heroines, department stores, ship launching ceremonies, perfumes, everyday articles, Argentinian tangos. Offspring of the Art Nouveau decorative spirit, Metlicovitz finally distanced himself, privileging subdued moods, concentration, the static pose liable to arouse the audience’s emotions: his works distil a sorrowful humanism that continues to enthrall us even now.

 

Publisher: Amici della Scala – Grafiche Step Editrice

Text: Italian and English

Pages: 192

Format: 12,7 * 17,6 cm

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STREHLER AND HIS SCENOGRAPHERS

STREHLER AND HIS SCENOGRAPHERS

Curated by Vittoria Crespi Morbio

 

Giorgio Strehler’s theatre questioned modern culture from the postwar period to the present.
Countless studies, analyses, and reflections were devoted to him, but one aspect has never been systematically examined: the relationship between the director and his scenographers. This is a crucial critical issue however, and perusing it throughout Strehler’s career leads to discover new aspects and confute prejudice. Along this path, that is not Always straight, we encounter great names of 20th-century painting, including Guttuso and Clerisi, Savinio and Casorati, and Leonor Fini, until it Narrows down to three outstanding figures: Gianni Ratto, Luciano Damiani, and Ezio Frigerio, the scenographers od Strehler’s most memorable performances.

 

Publisher: Amici della Scala – Grafiche Step Editrice

Text: Italian and English

Pages: 232

Format: 25 * 31 cm

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24 PRELUDES OP. 28, 2 NOCTURNES(OP. 27 N. 2, OP. 48 N. 1) – FRYDERYK CHOPIN

Music & Book Gallery: the series that combines masterpieces of classical music with great titles of literature. Book and DVD in a series of elegant and refined editions. Video presentation by Philippe Daverio.

1 BOOK + 1 DVD

Text: Italian

 

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24 Preludes op. 28, 2 Nocturnes (op. 27 n. 2, op. 48 n. 1) – Fryderyk Chopin

Piano: Mikhail Rudy

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“The life of Chopin” by Franz Liszt

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GISELLE – ADOLPHE-CHARLES ADAM

Music & Book Gallery: the series that combines masterpieces of classical music with great titles of literature. Book and DVD in a series of elegant and refined editions. Video presentation by Philippe Daverio.

1 BOOK + 1 DVD

Text: Italian

 

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Giselle – Adolphe-Charles Adam

Corpo di ballo del Teatro alla Scala

Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala

Cast: Alessandra Ferri, Massimo Murru, Isabel Seabra, Maurizio Vanadia, Marinella Carimati, Bryan Hewison, Maurizia Luceri, Matteo Buongiorno, Beatrice Carbone, Roberto Bolle, Silvia Scrivano, Gilda Gelati, Patrizia Milani, Laura Caccialanza, Silvia Scrivano, Sophie Sarrote, Aglaia Lovetti, Emanuela Montanari, Monica Vaglietti, Gilda Gelati

Condutor: Paul Connelly

Choreography: Patrice Bart (da Jean Coralli e Jules Perrot)

Direction: Alexandre Tarta

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“Tales” by Théophile Gautier

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LA TRAVIATA – GIUSEPPE VERDI

Music & Book Gallery: the series that combines masterpieces of classical music with great titles of literature. Book and DVD in a series of elegant and refined editions. Video presentation by Philippe Daverio.

1 BOOK + 2 DVD

Text: Italian

 

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La traviata – Giuseppe Verdi

Orchester, chor, ballet of Arena di Verona

Conductor: Julian Kovatchev

Direction, sets, costumes and lighting: Hugo de Ana

Choreography: Leda Lojodice

Directed by: Tiziano Mancini

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“La Dame aux Camélias” by Alexandre Dumas fils

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DANIEL BARENBOIM – FRYDERYK CHOPIN

Music & Book Gallery: the series that combines masterpieces of classical music with great titles of literature. Book and DVD in a series of elegant and refined editions. Video presentation by Philippe Daverio.

1 BOOK + 1 CD

Text: Italian

 

CD 

  1. Fantasia op. 49
  2. Notturno op. 27 n. 2
  3. Grave – Doppio movimento
  4. Scherzo: Presto, ma non troppo
  5. Marcia funebre
  6. Finale: Presto
  7. Barcarola op. 60
  8. Valzer op. 34 n. 3
  9. Valzer op. 34 n. 2
  10. Valzer op. 64 n. 2
  11. Berceuse op. 57
  12. Polacca op. 53

Piano: Daniel Barenboim

 

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“Life of Chopin” by Franz Liszt

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VERDI ALLA SCALA – VOL. 2 (FAMOUS ARIAS AND ROMANZAS)

Contents: 1 CD audio + book
Text in Italian, English and German.

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VERDI ALLA SCALA – VOL. 1 (CHORUSES, PRELUDES, SYMPHONIES)

Contents: 1 CD audio + book
Text in Italian, English and German.

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TEATRO ALLA SCALA – THE TEMPLE OF WONDERS

Teatro alla Scala – the temple of wonders

The most famous lyric theater in the world told through precious archival images, reconstructions of the period, exclusive interviews. A journey inside and outside the scene, in the life of La Scala, in its present and in its incredible story.

book + DVD
Texts: Italian, English, German and French

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