“The Marriage of Figaro” by Mozart on stage at the Teatro del Giglio
Great expectations at the Teatro del Giglio for The Marriage of Figaro, masterpiece of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the program Saturday 28 January at 20.30 and Sunday 29 at 16, a production of the Teatro Goldoni of Livorno made in co-production with the Verdi Theaters of Pisa and Giglio of Lucca, and with the staging of the Teatro Sociale of Rovigo. The work it was staged for the first time at the Burgtheater in Vienna on 1 May 1786, where it achieved great success; but it was in Prague, in January 1787, at the National Theater, that the audience literally went crazy for the Weddingcelebrating Mozart as never before: «Here we speak of nothing but Figaro; no one plays, blows and sings and whistles but Figaro: no other work but Figaro is always Figaro»writes Mozart in a letter to his Viennese friend Gottfried von Jaquin.
Concert master and conductor of the opera scheduled for the weekend at the Teatro del Giglio, on the podium of theTuscany Orchestrais Jacopo Curtains of Pescasseroliwho has to his credit important international successes in both the lyric and symphonic repertoire: «Nelle Wedding – he stated – the rigid division between comic and tragic collapses and the theater becomes the place used for the story of every day, in which the tears and laughter that alternate constantly find a direct comparison in arias that move from the saddest despair to the most exhilarating comedy and everyone, from the listener to the player, returns home certain that Mozart, who probably never set the voice of God to music as in this work, would have wanted to indicate a new way forward, a new world to look at and a new way of looking at oneself, trying to understand oneself by finding oneself in others, in diversity.». The Coro Lirico Toscano is directed by Clare Mariani.
The setting up of Weddingsigned for direction, sets, costumes and lights from Massimo Gasparón, director of clear fame and solid international experience, who grew up alongside a historical name of Italian opera staging such as Pier Luigi Pizzi, is all based on a skilful play of scenic symmetries and on a very lively theatrical setting of the “human comedy” immortalized by Mozart in this masterpiece: «This brilliant opera still stands out as a very topical and extraordinary human comedy through the story of the lives of three leading couples who change radically in the space of a single day. The tight and crazy plot, in which women and men oppose each other during a day of overwhelming passion, with dramatic and comic events, consecrates the humble more noble and intelligent than their masters.
In the cast, almost all Italian young voices are joined by already established artists of the new generation. Let’s remember them all: Luke Bruno (January 28) and Wellington Moura (29 Jan.) (The Count of Almaviva), Martha Mari (The Countess of Almaviva), Daniel Cappiello (January 28) and Sylvia Lee (29 Jan.) (Susanna), Nicholas Ziccardi (January 28) and Matthew D’Apolito (29 Jan.) (Figaro), Irene Molinari (January 28) and Diana Turtoi (29 Jan.) (Cherub), Alessandra Rossi (Marcellus), David Procaccini (Bartolo), Francis Napoleoni (Basil), Mauro Secci (Don Curzio), Michael Pierloni (Anthony), Maria Salvini (Barbarino).
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