Elisabetta, Regina d'Inghilterra

Rossini Opera Festival

Vitrifrigo Arena, Pesaro (IT) 2021
2021
Completed
Opera

Elizabeth, Queen of England, drama in two acts with a libretto by Giovanni Schmidt - staged by Davide Livermore, scenes by Giò Forma.

In a palace with glass walls, built creating suggestive effects of depth of the scene that deceive the perspective, not the war against Scotland but the last months of the Second World War are raging: the profile of a majestic royal deer immersed in the mists figures from the Symphony as a warning of a return to nature that clashes with the images of war transmitted on the LED walls, with an unstoppable coming and going of maids and butlers flitting from one room to another.

All is set in a London devastated by war with a Royal Air Force patrol, in a continuous rebound from the musical dimension to the overbearing and preponderant one of the images.
Elizabeth, Queen of England, drama in two acts with a libretto by Giovanni Schmidt - staged by Davide Livermore, scenes by Giò Forma.

The queen in a white gown beside an old radio on a white chest, against a wall of colourful flowers – Elisabetta, Regina d'Inghilterra at Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro, Italy, 2021 – set design
Singer in a bloodstained shirt seated on a chair, bare trees and red light projected behind – Elisabetta, Regina d'Inghilterra at Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro, Italy, 2021 – set designThe queen in a silver gown among white baroque furniture, reflected in the mirrored floor – Elisabetta, Regina d'Inghilterra at Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro, Italy, 2021 – set design
Singer in tailcoat beside an empty chair, palace walls projected in red mist behind him – Elisabetta, Regina d'Inghilterra at Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro, Italy, 2021 – set designPerformers on a mirrored floor against a vivid red LED wall, with a chair and a white statue – Elisabetta, Regina d'Inghilterra at Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro, Italy, 2021 – set design
Render of the glass-walled palace set with red floral projections and a throne on steps – Elisabetta, Regina d'Inghilterra at Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro, Italy, 2021 – set designRender of the palace set with black and white marbled projections and lit side grilles – Elisabetta, Regina d'Inghilterra at Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro, Italy, 2021 – set design
Render of the palace set as a multi-room interior with chandeliers and figures behind glass – Elisabetta, Regina d'Inghilterra at Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro, Italy, 2021 – set designRender of the palace set in blue light, with curtains, chandeliers and a central desk – Elisabetta, Regina d'Inghilterra at Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro, Italy, 2021 – set design
Full cast in coloured gowns before a giant Union Jack projection, the queen on white steps – Elisabetta, Regina d'Inghilterra at Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro, Italy, 2021 – set designRender of the palace set with shattered-glass projections, chandeliers and a figure in white – Elisabetta, Regina d'Inghilterra at Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro, Italy, 2021 – set design