Photograph
by Arianna Sanesi – courtesy Fornasetti
Milano: Fornasetti
- “Il dissoluto punito ossia il Don Giovanni” - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Lorenzo
Da Ponte. At the Teatro dell’Arte, appropriately inside the Triennale, the
design museum, in Milan, the premier of “Il dissoluto punito ossia il
Don Giovanni” by
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with a libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte was produced
and/with sets by Barnaba Fornasetti. After 229 years since the first
performance in Prague, and for the first time in Italy, those original
instruments and sounds for which Mozart created his masterpiece were heard once
again, fully respecting the greatness of the original score.
Next Performances
Florence – 10-12-13 January 2017
Teatro della Pergola
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“Try to imagine a world without
music… you would have the same feeling in a world without decoration.”
Barnaba Fornasetti
set design courtesy Fornasetti
Don Giovanni – The Sets
The sets are based on classic imagery, reinterpreted
in a modern way by Fornasetti. The themes taken from the Fornasetti archives
range from playing cards, a symbol of lightness and the eternal unexpected, to
the metaphysical room where the characters try to get lost but always return,
to the emblematic women’s faces of different identities, a constant and
obsessive reminder of the main theme of the work. The extraordinary artistic
vision of this opera is thus enhanced and completed, creating a surreal graphic
world. Mobile partitions add a fluid rhythm to the rapid progress of the
events, evoking a fantastic but also powerful and evocative situation in the
absence of a real environment.
Photograph
by Ray Tarantino – courtesy Fornasetti
Don
Giovanni – The Costumes
The costumes designed by Romeo Gigli reflect the
fragility of the characters, outside of space and time, but with all the memory
of emotions.
Don
Giovanni – The Orchestra and The Conductor
The
orchestra, Silete Venti! of 30 pieces, conducted by Simone Toni, above, played
period instruments, reproducing the original Mozart ensemble: the longitudinal
arrangement with the strings opposite the wind instruments contributes to
create a sonic and emotional result of great impact, as in the first
performances in the 1700s.
The
Fortepiano. In keeping with the original score Fornasetti decided to
replicate the original fortepiano made by Anton Walter in 1782. The fortepiano is
decorated with images from the Fornasetti archives, to create a bridge between
the Austrian genius and the modern creative vision of Fornasetti that pervades
this project.
Don Giovanni – The Libretto
Artist Jacopo Foggini with Artistic
Director Valeria Manzi
Set design courtesy Fornasetti
Don Giovanni
Conductor: Simone Toni
Orchestra: Silete Venti!
Project and Set design: Barnaba Fornasetti
Creative direction and Costumes: Romeo Gigli
Director: Davide Montagna
Lights: Gigi Saccomandi
Artistic directors: Valeria Manzi and Roberto
Coppolecchia
Producer: Andrea Nannoni
The
opera, as proposed by this unusual working group, avoids any attempt to make a
customary replica, and conceals a dream that unites a set of artists joined in
a trans-creative pact; personalities giving form to a project in which the
visions of the individual contribute to generate a single, inseparable subject.
Folly and ingenuity are combined with the desire not to amaze, but to simply
state their own existence. The goal is not only to engage an audience attracted
by the operatic performance as such, but also to appeal to a varied public,
through the artistic and intellectual particular that determine the character
of the work.
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