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Teatro Donizetti, ''L'ange de Nisida''

Bergamo (Italy)

Sketch by Angelo Sala for a scene from L'ange de Nisida.Donizetti completed the sheet music of the opera in 1839, but that was never presented to the public due to the failure of the people who commissioned it and its traces went lost.The thousands of pages on the ground are copies ...
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... of Donizetti's handwritten score, that was found almost two centuries later at the Bibliothèque nationale de France by musicologist Candida Mantica.The opera was staged for the first time at the Royal Opera House of London in 2018.The staging by Francesco Micheli and Angelo Sala ...
... took the opportunity of the renovation of the Teatro Gaetano Donizetti to overturn the classic layout of the teatro all'italiana, where the space traditionally reserved for representation is the stage.Taking advantage of the absence of the theater seats ...
... the stalls were used to carry out the action, while the audience that was supposed to occupy it was placed on a grandstand set up on the stage in front of which ...
... Donizetti's bust symbolically attends the first Italian representation of the opera, staged by the theater of his hometown that since 2014 is working thanks to the Fondazione Teatro Donizetti.To complete the reworking of the theatrical spaces ...
... the choir was arranged in the fourth order of boxes.The setting, already extremely original, was also really suggestive because of the amplification of the space, that was produced ...
... by the neoclassical trompe-l'œil that decorates the ceiling of the hall.And by the mirroring effect of the TST - Silviastar floor with which the flooring of the stalls was covered ...
... that the lighting designer Alessandro Andreoli used as a reflective surface.
L'ange de Nisida
Opera semiseria in four acts
Music
Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
Libretto
Alphonse Royer,
Gustave Vaëz
First night
London, Royal Opera House, 18/7/2018
Scenography
Angelo Sala
Costume design
Margherita Baldoni
Light design
Alessandro Andreoli
Stage direction
Francesco Micheli
Staging
Fondazione Teatro Donizetti of Bergamo
Season
Festival Donizetti Opera 2019

Materials used in this production

RAR - Arizona

Rear-projection films

Rear-illuminated backdrops

Vinyl backdrops: typologies

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