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grand opera in 10 scenes

music Silvia Colasanti

libretto René de Ceccatty and Giorgio Ferrara

conductor Jonathan Webb

director and scenography Giorgio Ferrara

costumes Vincent Darré

lighting Fiammetta Baldiserri

Minotaur Gianluca Margheri baritone

Arianna Benedetta Torre soprano

Theseus Matteo Falcier tenor

Athenian victims

Federico Benvenuto, Irene Ciani, Renato Civello, Serena De Siena, Eugenia Faustini, Angelo Galdi, Alessia Genua, Cecilia Guzzardi, Francesco Iaia, Paolo Marconi, Eugenio Mastrandrea, Eleonora Pace, Giulia Tomaselli, Carlo Zanotti graduate actors of Accademia d’Arte Drammatica "Silvio d’Amico" in Rome

Orchestra Giovanile Italiana

International Opera Choir

choir master Gea Garatti

based on the ballad Minotaurus

by Friedrich Dürrenmatt

assistant director Patrizia Frini

technical manager Ottorino Neri

production coordinator Silvia Stoppani

stage manager Fabrizio Pisaneschi

assistant to costumes Marta Rinaldi

piano master Daniela Pellegrino

stage masters Edina Bak, Meri Piersanti

lighting master Carmine Diodoro

head of sceneshifters sector Paolo Zappelli

supervisors sceneshifters Michele Colella, Massimiliano Marotta

sceneshifters Andrea Becchetti, Leonardo Bellini, Enrico Calabresi, Alessio Lodovichetti, Fabio Pibiri, Alessandro Gobbi

moving light operator Roberto Gelmetti

head electrician Simone De Angelis

electricians Davide Baldoni, Marco Mosca

lighting systems supervisor Graziano Albertella for Spanensemble

phonic supervisor Emanuele Carlucci

prop manager Patrizia Valentini

propwoman Marta Tazza

costume shop supervisor Chiara Crisolini Malatesta

seamstresses Marian Osman Mohamed, Serenella Orti, Francesca Persichini, Giuliana Rossi

costumes Farani Sartoria Teatrale

make-up and wigs supervisor Roberto Maria Paglialunga

masks Laboratorio Artigianale Laboracuoio

scenographic elements Mekane srl Roma, Arte Idea srl Roma, Laboratorio di Scenotecnica e Pittura del Festival dei Due Mondi di Spoleto

festival scenography supervisor Claudio Balducci

audio service Arcadia Digital srl - Roma

lights Arcadia Digital srl - Roma

surtitles Prescott

show business structures and services Atmo Divisione Gioform srl

pianos Angelo Fabbrini

piano tuner Luigi Fusco

transports S.I.C.A.F. Spoleto

remote lighting control E.T.C. Italia www.etcconnect.com

The Minotaur: in this opera the myth of a terrifying monster becomes a “human” drama, the drama of a being dealing with himself, actually with an infinite number of himself reflected by the mirorred walls of the labyrint.

In contrast, human beings - here represented by Teseo and Arianna - are the actual perpetrators.

In addition to the three leading voices – Minotaur, Arianna and Teseo – the Chorus of the Birds, sort of modern Greek chorus, death omen and witness who comments on the action. A small orchestra frames the protagonists vocal lines becoming protagonist on its turn, at some action’s formal turning points. The Moon and the Sun go along with the relentless fate of the monster.

As opposed to the Minotaur’s loneliness, his young victims who form an ominous ring around him before to get killed, one after another, in a strongly percussive and abstract struggle.

The finale is left to the Chorus of the Birds: a long intimate and sore prayer accompanied by gloomy bells.

Silvia Colasanti

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BIOGRAPHIES
THE ARTISTS

SILVIA COLASANTI
Silvia Colasanti´s compositions are perfomed in the main international music institutions. Read

GIORGIO FERRARA
Born in Rome; He followed the degree course in Liberal Arts at the La Sapienza University and the acting course at the “Silvio d’Amico” National Academy of Dramatic Arts. Read

RENÉ DE CECCATTY
Nato a Tunisi nel ‘52, vive a Parigi; ha pubblicato una ventina di romanzi (tra cui La Sentinelle du rêve, L’Or et la poussière, l’Accompagnement, Aimer, L’Hôte invisible, Un renoncement, Objet d’amour, Enfance, dernier chapitre). Read

VINCENT DARRÉ
Like cats, Vincent Darré has had several lives, slipping from fashion to interior design, making his homes the laboratory for his extravagant creativity. Read

Silvia Colasanti´s compositions are perfomed in the main international music institutions.

Her poetic - between a “material” sound style, a strong lyrism and great richness in range – is strongly inspired by the collaboration with internationally celebrated soloists and directors as Vladimir Yurovski, Yuri Bashmet, Salvatore Accardo, David Geringas, Nathalie Dessay, Massimo Quarta, Enrico Bronzi.

For the theatre she composed the melologue Orfeo. Flebile queritur lyra played by Maddalena Crippa, L’angelo del Liponard. Un delirio amoroso played by Sandro Lombardi, Faust. Tragedia soggettiva in musica based on a piece by F. Pessoa, commissioned by and performed at Chigiana Academy directed by Ferdinando Bruni, conducted by Francesco Frongia, La Metamorfosi, based on the homonimous short story by Franz Kafka directed by Pier Luigi Pier’Alli, commissioned by Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. The work for voice and orchestra Dal paese dei ramicomes from the collaboration with Mariangela Gualtieri. Le imperdonabili, inspired to Etty Hillesum, based on a text by Guido Barbieri and directed by Alessio Pizzech has been performed in the Memorial Day, the 27 of January 2017.

In 2016 Tre Risvegli, based on a piece by Patrizia Cavalli, directed by Mario Martone, played by Alba Rohrwacher had is world premiere at Spoleto Festival.

In 2017 Requiem. Stringeranno nei pugni una cometa, Oratorio for Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra, in memory of the victims of the earthquake in the centre of Italy, commissioned by Spoleto Festival on a piece by Mariangela Gualtieri, has been performed in Spoleto in Piazza Duomo and in several other institutions. A live recording has been recently published by the label Dynamic.

Last october Siliva Colasanti presented her new work for cello and strings composed for David Geringas at Bologna Municipal Theatre.

In 2013 she has won the European Composer Award (Berlin) and has been appointed "Cavaliere della Repubblica" by the President of The Republic Napolitano, in 2017 has been appointed "Ufficiale della Repubblica" by the President of The Republic Mattarella.

Her works are published by Casa Ricordi.

Born in Rome; He followed the degree course in Liberal Arts at the La Sapienza University and the acting course at the “Silvio d’Amico” National Academy of Dramatic Arts. He was assistant director to Luca Ronconi and Luchino Visconti, with whom he collaborated intensely. For the RAI TV he directed the film L’uomo che ho ucciso from the novel 1912+1 by Leonardo Sciascia, screenplay by Domenico Rafele and Pierre Dumayet and the series Avvocati by Giancarlo de Cataldo. For the movies he directed: Un cuore semplice, screenplay by Cesare Zavattini from the story by Gustave Flaubert, which was awarded with the David of Donatello, the Rizzoli Prize, the Saint Vincent Prix and the Nastro d’argento; Caccia alla Vedova, screenplay by Enrico Medioli from the Vedova scaltra by Goldoni; Tosca e altre due from the eponymous play by Franca Valeri, screenplay by Enrico Medioli. For the theater he has staged performances by classic and contemporary authors such as Pirandello, Strindberg, Goldoni, Carlo Bernari, Francesca Sanvitale, Enzo Siciliano, Franca Valeri, Cesare Musatti, Natalia Ginzburg and Corrado Augias. For the Rome Opera House he staged Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly. For the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto he has staged: Gogo no eiko by Hanz Werner Henze; Amelia Goes to the Ball by Gian Carlo Menotti; The Turn of the Screw by Benjanim Britten; The Piano Upstairs by John Weidman; Così fan tutte, Le nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Minotauro of Silvia Colasanti. As an actor he participated in: Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure and Richard III, directed by Luca Ronconi; Nina by André Roussin, directed by Bernard Murat; Alcool written and directed by Adriana Asti; La Maria Brasca by Testori, directed by Andrée Ruth Shammah; L’inserzioneby Natalia Ginzburg, directed by Giorgio Ferrara; The Chairs by Eugène Ionesco, directed by Tullio Pericoli; The Dance of Death by August Strindberg, directed by Luca Ronconi. He was Director of the Italian Cultural Institute in Paris and Chairman of the Forum des Instituts Culturels Etrangers à Paris. From 2008 to 2012 he was President and Artistic Director of the Festival of Two Worlds Foundation in Spoleto, and today covers the role of Artistic Director.

Nato a Tunisi nel ‘52, vive a Parigi; ha pubblicato una ventina di romanzi (tra cui La Sentinelle du rêve, L’Or et la poussière, l’Accompagnement, Aimer, L’Hôte invisible, Un renoncement, Objet d’amour, Enfance, dernier chapitre). Ha tradotto molti autori italiani (Petrarca, Dante, Leopardi, Casanova, Saba, Moravia, Pasolini, Bonaviri, Penna, Naldini) e giapponesi (in collaborazione con Ryôji Nakamura: Ôé, Abé, Sôseki, Tanizaki, Mishima). Ha vinto il Premio Mondello 2008 per le sue traduzioni di Moravia. Ha scritto le biografie di Pasolini, Maria Callas, Sibilla Aleramo, Moravia, Elsa Morante. Cinque dei suoi libri sono stati tradotti in italiano finora: La stella rubino (Costa e Nolan), Sibilla Aleramo (Mondadori), La parola amore (Archinto), Alberto Moravia (Bompiani), Amicizia e passione (Archinto). Scrive anche molto per il teatro. Ha lavorato con Claudia Cardinale, Isabelle Adjani, Anouk Aimée e Adriana Asti che gli ha confidato i suoi ricordi (Ricordare e dimenticare Portaparole 2016) portati in scena da Andrée-Ruth Shammah in Memorie di Adriana al 60° Festival di Spoleto. Lavora spesso con il regista argentino Alfredo Arias. Le loro commedie sono state allestite in Italia (Pene di cuore di una gatta francese, Concha Bonita, Pallido oggetto del desiderio, Madame Pink). La sua collaborazione con Giorgio Ferrara è cominciata dodici anni fa a Parigi con Solus ad solam, seguito da Il cielo e il sangue, Alberto e Moravia, Zaide. A Spoleto è venuto varie volte a presentare spettacoli, tra i quali Anouk Aimée legge Moravia. Nel 2017, sempre per il Festival di Spoleto, ha collaborato con Giorgio Ferrara alla drammaturgia della nuova produzione dell’opera Don Giovanni di Mozart e Minotauro di Silvia Colasanti. Ha scritto le parole addizionali per una versione aumentata inedita di Fra Diavolo di Auber creata in seguito in prima mondiale al Teatro dell’Opera di Roma in ottobre 2017.

Like cats, Vincent Darré has had several lives, slipping from fashion to interior design, making his homes the laboratory for his extravagant creativity. Said to be fantastic and baroque, Vincent Darré is especially free and agile. Undoubtedly his James Thierré side, of whom he has the wick and the tonicity as well as a dandy look.

What’s up. After his exhibition at the Museum of Art in Toulon, that lasted throughout the summer, he opened his new gallery, the Maison Vincent Darré at 13 rue Royale, a new vision of Decorative Arts in this very Parisian address at the heart of 8th arrondissement. A new concept, a new collection and a new address: those three decisions were all made late 2016 during his auction at Piasa for which he had reproduced his home on the second floor of the auction house. His new collection was designed by January, entitled Renaissance for several reasons. The first objective was to start with a clean slate on which he felt entitled  to rewrite the rules.

He loves. Another thread that runs through his work is the vision of his childhood memories, since the day his mother brought him to Italy, where he discovered baroque and its phantasmagoric references in the gaze of the Bomarzo monsters and the grotesque fountains of the Villa Lante. Those gardens forgotten by modernity, survivors of a pagan legend, rich with irrational symbols and follies, have haunted him ever since.

Showstoppers. The renaissance in his work would not exist without the craftsmen who endow the furniture with the magic touch of their know-how. Every day, he pays homage to Les Grands Ateliers de France for the pieces manufactured in their workshops. It is as a tribute to them that he has called his latest collection Les Estampillés: the objects from this collection bear the mark of the craftsmen’s hands and are signed by those of Vincent Darré. A very close collaboration indeed.

Signature style. A theatrical lifestyle that is close to his heart and references an imaginary past. Vincent Darré embodies timeless luxury à la française, as well as decorative arts. The colours of his collections are rich, his pieces follow one another but are always unique, prompting each visitor to shift from one mood to the next. His collection of chairs, sofas and armchairs is a formal invitation to a lively conversation.

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SILVIA COLASANTI

GIORGIO FERRARA

RENÉ DE CECCATTY

JONATHAN WEBB

VINCENT DARRÉ

FIAMMETTA BALDISERRI

PATRIZIA FRINI

GIANLUCA MARGHERI

BENEDETTA TORRE

MATTEO FALCIER

ORCHESTRA GIOVANILE ITALIANA DELLA SCUOLA DI MUSICA DI FIESOLE

INTERNATIONAL OPERA CHOIR

GEA GARATTI

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