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Arena Sferisterio, ''Tosca''

Macerata

A detail of the TST - Silviastar mirror floor with which was covered the whole surface of the stage.The scenographer Emanuela Pischedda turned the stage of the Sferisterio ...
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... into a gigantic stylized and completely reflecting eye, thanks to the use of two mirroring materials, the TST - Silviastar floor and the QSP - Mirofilm.In the slightly tilted floor, on the earth, the pupil of the giant eye is recognizable, in which the colored wine glasses compose a female face, the one of the Maddalena painted by Cavaradossi ...
... that is reflected to the audience by the big circle that overhangs the scene and that it owes its own reflecting effect to the covering realized with the QSP - Mirofilm.
A group of twelve angels enter the scene.The angels are, in a following scene ...
... completely naked and are given birth by a presence introduced by the director Antonio Latella: that of the Madonna ...
... here reflected by the TST - Silviastar mirror floor.
The conclusion of the first act, with Scarpia supported by the angels and symbolically crucifix, as if it were the antichrist.On background, the face of the Maddalena composed by the wine glasses and reflexed by the QSP - Mirofilm.The TST - Silviastar mirror floor was also used ...
... to enhance the chromatic lighting effects, creating suffused atmospheres.The Roman places of Tosca, that is the church of Santa Maria degli Angeli, Palazzo Farnese and Castel Sant'Angelo, are only referred to in a symbolic way.Tosca at the end ...
Tosca
Melodrama in three acts
Music
Giacomo Puccini, (1858-1924)
Libretto
Giuseppe Giacosa
Luigi Illica
from the homonym play by Victorien Sardou
First night
Rome, Teatro Costanzi, 14/1/1900
Scenography,
costume design
Emanuela Pischedda
Technical direction
Bruno Carletti
Light design
Giorgio Cervesi Ripa
Stage direction
Antonio Latella
Staging
Arena Sferisterio of Macerata
Season
2005

Materials used in this production

QSP - Mirofilm

Mirroring materials

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