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Teatro La Fenice, ''I quatro rusteghi''

Venice

The laundry hung out to dry was stylized with cuts of GTR - Tarlatana semi-rigid gauze.Contrary to the audience in the hall, some of the critics did not appreciate Livermore's direction, reproaching him for considering Goldon's vision anachronistic and, considering it inapplicable to contemporary reality, for having treated the staging of Wolf-Ferrari's jewel with superficiality and disinterest.
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From a chat casually exchanged (before the debut) with the set designer Santi Centineo, who must have known Livermore's point of view well, however, a much more refined intention had emerged.The thesis was not the anachronism of Goldoni, today more vital than ever, but the pointing out how Venice, its history, customs and characters, including therefore those of The four rusteghi ...
... have suffered a deterioration to the contemporary eye due to the aggression of mass tourism, which has emptied them of their original meanings, downgrading them to the role of souvenirs.Emblematic in this regard would have been the final scene of the group photo, in which an enormous transparent bubble with snow turbines was supposed to fall on the characters, suppressed due to technical difficulties.
Santi Centineo's sets used a large Digital printing rear-illuminated backdrop made with RAR - Arizona rear projection film.The subject was a cloudy sky, the executive highlights the division of the image on the sheets it was made of ...
... and this is a scene where the backdrop was used.Above you can see the outline of a series of Flats ...
... that are coming down onto the stage.The sides are covered with painted ASC - Sceno muslin and set the scene in a Venetian street.Those on the left are hit by a frontal projection, while those on the right have windows in which ...
... three small RAR - Arizona Rear-projection screens .An ironic allusion to high water, the stylized waves were created with the elastic fabric LEL - Perospan ...
... and the stage was often crossed by walkways, also an allusion to the high water that increasingly afflicts modern-day Venice.
I quatro rusteghi
Musical comedy in three acts
Music
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (1876-1948)
Libretto
Giuseppe Pizzolato
from Carlo Goldoni
First night
Munich, Königliches Hof-und Nationaltheater, 19/3/1906
Scenography
Santi Centineo
Costume design
Giusy Giustino
Technical drection
Bepi Morassi
Stage direction
Davide Livermore
Staging
Teatro La Fenice of Venice
Co-production
Teatro Massimo Bellini of Catania
Season
2005 / 2006

Materials used in this production

1K - Kompas

Track systems

ASC - Sceno

Muslin and canvas

BSU - Super Gobelin

Scrim and bobbinet fabrics

COS - Oscurante

Duvetyne and blackout fabrics

GTR - Tarlatana

Gauzes

LEL - Perospan

Elastic fabrics

RAR - Arizona

Rear-projection films

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