A riveder le Stelle.

Un'inusuale prima in lockdown.

Teatro alla Scala - Milano - Italy (2020)
2020
Completed
Opera

A Riveder le Stelle: an unusual première, without an audience and broadcast live on TV, it showed us a silent but mor intimate La Scala

A Riveder le Stelle, an unusual première in lockdown, without an audience and broadcast live on TV, it showed us a decidedly new, silent but more intimate Teatro La Scala premiere, with the orchestra distributed to fill the void of the audience who attended in large numbers at home.

A Riveder le Stelle pays homage to Dante 700 years after his death, and at the same time it is a celebration in the name of an artistic pot pourri that combines lyricism, poetry, dance with ideas, passions, movements that cross the contemporary society.

A story about opera and dance, whose dramaturgy was conceived and transformed into a show with an iridescent and changing scenography with homages to the Italian auteur cinema of Fellini and Mastroianni combined with images that are reflected on a water floor.

At the center is Italy but also the great European composers. The night has start with extracts from works by Giuseppe Verdi and has continue with Gaetano Donizetti, Giacomo Puccini, Georges Bizet, Francesco Cilea, Jules Massenet, Richard Wagner and Gioachino Rossini.

Directed by Davide Livermore, scenes by Giò Forma.

Dancer in a red tulle dress on a platform over a water floor, blue kaleidoscopic projection behind – A Riveder le Stelle at La Scala, Milan, Italy, 2020 – opera set design
Set with an illuminated Cinecittà sign, a full moon, a scooter, a vintage van and a white convertible – A Riveder le Stelle at La Scala, Milan, Italy, 2020 – opera set designSinger in a white convertible that seems to float over a bridge, Castel Sant'Angelo projected behind – A Riveder le Stelle at La Scala, Milan, Italy, 2020 – opera set design
Performers with black umbrellas and a dancing couple on a wooden platform before a coral-red projection – A Riveder le Stelle at La Scala, Milan, Italy, 2020 – opera set designSinger in a blue cape with open arms facing her giant shadow in a circle of white light – A Riveder le Stelle at La Scala, Milan, Italy, 2020 – opera set design
Singer in a long gown dwarfed by a projection of a woman floating among water lilies – A Riveder le Stelle at La Scala, Milan, Italy, 2020 – opera set designTwo singers by empty chairs on a wet wooden deck, crows on wires projected across a cloudy sky – A Riveder le Stelle at La Scala, Milan, Italy, 2020 – opera set design
Singer in black tie beside an empty chair and old cart wheels, soft pink clouds projected behind – A Riveder le Stelle at La Scala, Milan, Italy, 2020 – opera set designSinger in a black gown before a barricade scene with a large tricolour flag, cart wheels and actors – A Riveder le Stelle at La Scala, Milan, Italy, 2020 – opera set design
Singer beside an armchair among candles and marble statues, rippling light projected behind – A Riveder le Stelle at La Scala, Milan, Italy, 2020 – opera set designActor seated at a large desk between two American flags, an eagle sculpture at left – A Riveder le Stelle at La Scala, Milan, Italy, 2020 – opera set design