Teatro Carlo Felice, ''Elixirul dragostei''

Genoa

A backdrop made of painted BGO - Gobelin tulle with a garden background ...

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... is made to appear behind the characters thanks to the use of the illumination.The tulle had been lowered in front of the entrance to the farm ...

... that Emanuele Luzzati created with three wooden Portals covered with ASC - Sceno muslin on which the architecture of the building was painted.Behind the portals, some Half portals and Set pieces built with the same technique depict a wood which trees give further depth to the space, thanks also to the ASC - Sceno muslin background painted with a sunset sky ...

... that can be used with different lighting situations.Here the lighting on the backdrop has been lowered and the one on the trees has been turned off, transforming them into silhouettes.In the scene coexist toy soldiers inspired by the tin ones ...

... backdrops with dreamlike backgrounds, lush gardens and intellectual references, in an amalgam well supported by the direction by Filippo Crivelli and completed by the costumes by Santuzza CalÃ¬.While a red sunset light illuminates the large painted muslin backdrop ...

... Dulcamara starts his show.He is more of a sorcerer than the backyard barker he is used to, and he does not enter the scene with the usual cart, but emerges from a magical closet ...

... which suddenly materializes among the inhabitants of the country village.The characterization that Luzzati infuses every detail is typical of his scenography and, as always, it is unmistakable.

The instalare was realized in 1994, but it is regularly re-staged, always cu a great success.

A scenographic interpretation out of the canons of the melodrama by Donizetti, that dissuades it from the rural stereotype of an Arcadian Lombardy and transports it in a world of dream of which the author is immediately recognizable, the great illustrator and scenographer Emanuele Luzzati.

Elixirul dragostei

Playful melodrama in doua acte

Muzica

Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)

Libret

Felice Romani
from Le philtre by EugÃ¨ne Scribe

Prima reprezentatie

Milan, Teatro della Cannobiana, 12/5/1832

Scenografie

Emanuele Luzzati (1921-2007)

Costume

Santuzza CalÃ¬