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Teatro Regio di Parma, ''Marin Faliero''

Parma

Ghiaccio transparent backdrop, 13 m of width and 8 m of height.The scenographer Giovanni Carluccio chose the film QGH - Ghiaccio to exploit to the dramatic goals of the direction by Daniel Abbado, the characteristic games of reflection and transparency obtainable from it.The libretto of Marin Faliero was inspired by a Byron's tragedy, that brings back to the dramatic stories that in 1355 brought to the destruction of the family of the homonym doge of Venice.
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«... in the end of the first action the mirror reflects the floor of the hall of the celebrations in the house of Leoni and magnifying the scene swallows the protagonists.»Giancarlo Landini, L'opera, No. 158.
With a perfect tuning with the essential scenographies by Carluccio, the mise in scène by Daniele Abbado and the costumes by Carla Teti they reflect themselves in the tilted mirror constituted by the Ghiaccio transparent backdrop ...
... a livid and immovable allegory of the Venetian lagoon that assists impassive to the fall of the events.
«The severe climate, the grey architectures create a sense of suffocating moral claustrophobia.An enormous mirror started on the fund of the scene closing it, provokes suggestive effects in some fatal moments of the story.It is the case of the second act ...»
«... when Fernando enters the Piazza di San Giovanni e Paolo, the mirror reflects his figure, it makes it smaller and it pushes him away; like an enchantment, it sets the accent on the loneliness of this man that soon will die.»Giancarlo Landini, ibidem.
Marin Faliero, bottom right, receives the death sentence from the Council of Ten, whose members are located above and are reflected by the Ghiaccio transparent backdrop.
Ghiaccio transparent backdrop, 13 m of width and 8 m of height.The scenographer Giovanni Carluccio chose the film QGH - Ghiaccio to exploit to the dramatic goals of the direction by Daniel Abbado, the characteristic games of reflection and transparency obtainable from it.The libretto of Marin Faliero was inspired by a Byron's tragedy, that brings back to the dramatic stories that in 1355 brought to the destruction of the family of the homonym doge of Venice.
Lyric tragedy in three acts
Music
Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
Libretto
Giovanni Emanuele Bidera
from the homonym tragedy by Casimir Delavigne
First night
Paris, Théâtre Italien, 12/03/1835

Scenography
Giovanni Carluccio
Costume design
Carla Teti
Light design
Guido Levi
Technical direction
Luigi Cipelli
Stage direction

Staging
Teatro Regio of Parma
Season
2001 / 2002

Materials used in this production

QGH - Ghiaccio

Decorative films

ZFG - Backdrops made of QGH - Ghiaccio

Mirror / transparent backdrops

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