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Teatro La Fenice, ''Rustic Chivalry''

Venice

The statement of the scenography is based on a fixed scene that introduces a desolate beach.The beach is bordered by rocks that stand out against the background of a Mediterranean sky which colours vary from blue with flashes of the sun on the horizon ...
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... to a dégradé grey ...
... and to the sunset.To make the sky Arnaldo Pomodoro used a Rear-illuminated cyclorama made of RNV - Nevada film in the size of 38 m of width and 16 m of height.The cyclorama creates a bright background with variable colours against which ropes, hoists ...
... and ladders placed at the sides of the scene stand out.The characters in the choir will use them to lift a gigantic crucifix which is pulled from the ground, tearing it apart ...
... as if it came out of the bowels of the earth.The crucifix, that shows an iron, dark and oppressive aspect, it is a sculpture by Arnaldo Pomodoro that represents with an oppressive strength ...
... the ''Mala Pasqua'' (Bad Easter), the wish of bad luck that Santuzza turns to the unfaithful Turiddu.The symbolic power of the gigantic crucifix that dominates the life of the village in which Alfio, Turiddu and Santuzza live and, for extension, of whole Sicily ...
... is accented by the back-lighting on the RNV - Nevada Rear-illuminated cyclorama.The crucifix, together with the subdued and black dressed women, it is also the symbol of a Sicily oppressed by the weight of a reactionary Catholicism ...
... from which it is not possible to get free.
Rustic Chivalry
Melodrama in one act
Music
Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945)
Libretto
Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti
Guido Menasci
from the homonym play by Giovanni Verga
First night
Rome, Teatro Costanzi, 17/05/1890
Scenography
Arnaldo Pomodoro
Costume design
Maurizio Millenotti
Light design
Fabio Barettin
Technical direction
Massimo Checchetto
Stage direction
Ermanno Olmi
Staging
Teatro La Fenice of Venice
Season
2009/2010

Materials used in this production

Arnaldo Pomodoro

Some Masters

Rear-illuminated backdrops

Vinyl backdrops: typologies

RNV - Nevada

Rear-projection films

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