Una coproduzione Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino – Teatro Carlo Felice
Prima rappresentazione: 12/02/2019 Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
MAESTRO CONCERTATORE E DIRETTORE Valerio Galli
REGIA Luigi Di Gangi e Ugo Giacomazzi
SCENE Federica Parolini
COSTUMI Agnese Rabatti
LUCI Luigi Biondi
MASCHERE Roberto Andrioli
INTERPRETI
Santuzza Alexia Voulgaridou
Lola Marina Ogii
Turiddu Angelo Villari
Compar Alfio Devid Cecconi
Mamma Lucia Elena Zilio
ORCHESTRA E CORO Orchestra e Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
MAESTRO DEL CORO Lorenzo Fratini
ENG
As natives of Sicily, we felt the need to evoke the physical space of an ancient theatre like those you can still see in Sicily, a mere semicircle made up of two steps surrounded by century old buildings. Silhouettes, lines, shapes, a vulnerable and short lived paper city kept alive by human relations. But if the steps are where the show is viewed from, what used to be the closed space for the orchestra has now become an open square, the place for acting par excellence. It is the symbolic stage of contemporary life (real or virtual, it hardly matters), the world’s theatre upon which our private and public passions are played out, not only Christ’s but also Turiddu and Santuzza’s. Their Easter is as eternal as the place they live in. It is rooted in those archaic rites of the past which mix the sacred with the profane: children dressed as devils guard the fire whose ashes will be used to wash the shroud of the risen Lord. Primeval elements which help us realize how ancient and divine the human being actually is. All of the people from Cavalleria actively take part in this Passion as each one of has to live out his or her own. Thus Mascagni’s characters, like Sophocles’ and Euripides’ are tragically actors of a rite which casts them in the leading roles of archetypical power. Thrown into time yet they are as immortal as heroes.
Cavalleria Rusticana