MILAN – A journey called theater. This is the claim that accompanies the 2018/19 billboard of the Teatro Carcano in Milan. Why the fifth season was called this is how
the artistic directors Sergio Fantoni and Fioravante Cozzaglio explain it to us. “After 28 shows produced, 64 shows hosted, 800 curtain raises, 480,000 spectators conquered day by day, we feel the need to underline the material consolidation and the definitive affirmation of the artistic identity of the Teatro Carcano.” The return of opera The return of opera after decades of absence is
highlighted in the generous billboard. On the historic stage of Corso di Porta Romana, which saw the absolute debuts of famous titles by Donizetti and Bellini, the prestigious collaboration with the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory of Music in Milan and the Brera Academy comes to life in a double appointment, at the opening of season and in May, with the most farcical and youthful Rossini and a universal masterpiece born from the genius of Mozart . Home productions
And again the home productions / co-productions : MOLIERE / IL MISANTROPO , interpreted and directed by Valter Malosti and produced with the Fondazione Teatro Piemonte Europa and LuganoInScena; QUEEN LEAR, Claire Dowie’s original reinterpretation of Shakespeare ‘s King Lear staged by the Milanese group Nina’s Drag Queens , produced together with the Aparte Cooperative and the Metastasio Theater in Prato; the thriller VOCI NEL BUIO , written and directed by the American John Pielmeier and starring the intense Laura Morante , co-produced with Ginevra Media Production; RICCARDO III by William Shakespeare, a production of the Centro d’Arte Contemporanea Teatro Carcano with Davide Lorenzo Palla who signs the direction together with Riccardo Mallus . Yasmina Reza, French writer and playwright (hers is the text from which Roman Polanski drew the Carnage cinematic psychodrama) and author of BELLA FIGURA , a work of five characters – two couples plus a mother – linked together by an embarrassing secret. On stage a nice group of actors formed by Anna Foglietta, Paolo Calabresi, Anna Ferzetti, David Sebasti with the participation of Simona Marchini . Directed by Roberto Ando (Gli Ipocriti Melina Balsamo, 18-28 October 2018 ). The Classics and the Prose THE SEAGULL by Anton Cechovand a classic of modern theater, capable of speaking a current language to all generations: to young victims of their existential pain and to adults who find it hard to accept the passing of the years. A “live” portrait of an authentic and true humanity, it is a drama of lost illusions and a profound reflection on Art and Life. In the anguish, in the disturbances, in the defeats of its protagonists there is all the complexity of modern man. The staging directed by Marco Sciaccaluga stages for the first time in Italy the version of 1895 prior to the tsarist censorship. With (in oa) Roberto Alinghieri, Alice Arcuri, Elsa Bossi, Eva Cambiale, Andrea Nicolini, Elisabetta Pozzi, Stefano Santospago, Francesco Sferrazza Pope, Kabir Tavani, Federico Vanni. (National Theater of Genoa, January 31-February 10, 2019 ).
The second direction by Serena Sinigaglia deals with the funniest Shakespeare from LE ALLEGRE COMARI DI WINDSOR in the adaptation by Edoardo Erba . The text, elaborated and edited with great taste for irony, sees only female characters on stage, committed to devising the most effective punishments to take revenge on the dissolute Falstaff, absent from the scene, but present as the engine of every action. To accompany the acting, passages from Verdi’s Falstaff played and sung live. With Mila Boeri , Annagaia Marchioro , Chiara Stoppa ,Virginia Zini, Giulia Bertasi (Teatro di Napoli-Bellini Theater Foundation | ATIR Teatro Ringhiera, 21 February-3 March 2019 ).
To close the prose season the bitter and funny comedy by Carmine Amoroso PARENTI SERPENTI , dear to cinema fans thanks to the cult film by Mario Monicelli in 1992. A Christmas like any other, the return of the children, now far away in the country, to home for elderly parents. And if this year the beloved old people wanted to ask their children something for them for once
. If they finally wanted to be “looked after”, who would take care of them
. Director Luciano Melchionnabuilds a glimpse of family life of great relevance, comical and merciless at the same time, which makes us reflect with deep emotion and emotion. On stage Lello Arena with Giorgia Trasselli and with Raffaele Ausiello, Marika De Chiara, Andrea de Giyzueta, Carla Ferraro, Serena Pisa, Fabrizio Vona (Ente Teatro Cronaca Vesuvioteatro, 9-19 May 2019 ). Music at the theater
The Carcano Theater renews the glories of its origins and returns to welcome masterpieces of musical theater on its stage with a double collaboration with the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory of Milan and the Brera Academy that will involve students and teachers. To inaugurate the 2018/19 season on 12 October LA CAMBIALE DI MARRIMONIO , musical comedy farce in one act by Gioachino Rossini , with libretto by Gaetano Rossi . Conducting the G. Verdi Conservatory Orchestra on the occasion of the debut will be Margherita Colombo. At the opening of the evening, LE MOTS QUI SONNENT , a diptych of melologues in homage to Rossini in the 150th anniversary of his death, on music composed by students of the Conservatory’s composition classes (Elia Praderio, Method to fall asleep; Federico Pirotti, Petit Diner de Plaisir ). ( 12 – 14 October 2018) . In spring, IL DISSOLUTO PUNITO IS DON GIOVANNI , a playful drama in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart will be stagedwith libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte (3-5 May 2019). The shows are co-produced by the G. Verdi Conservatory of Music in Milan and the Brera Academy. From November 30th to December 2nd the Carcano will resound with the joyful rhythms and spectacular voices of the Soweto Gospel Choir , one of the most important gospel groups in the world. FREEDOM – this is the title of the show – celebrates the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Nelson Mandela, the Father of the Rainbow Nation: energy, passion, sharing the supreme joy of music in a program that alternates African gospel with songs of freedom and international classics. An explosive mix that will leave the audience breathless! Culture narrated
Conceived and organized by the Laterza publishing house as part of its numerous cultural initiatives aimed at the general public, the ” History lessons ” debut at the Carcano with ROMANZI NEL TEMPO : a cycle of six events (all on Monday at 20.30) to tell the great events and the way of life of an era through the pages of the novels that have determined the ways of thinking and feeling to date, leaving an indelible mark in the collective imagination. Each appointment will be conducted by a well-known historian. Napoleon and the art of war – starting with Leo Tolstoy ‘s War and Peace . With Alessandro Barbero ( 12 November 2018 ); Bourgeois morality – starting with Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert . With Alberto Maria Banti ( 10 December 2018 ); Garibaldi in Sicily – starting from Il Gattopardo by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa . With Lucy Riall ( January 14, 2019 ); The Unraveling of the West – starting with Henry Miller ‘s Tropic of Cancer . With Emilio Gentile ( 25 February 2019 ); Jews, Zionists and partisans – starting with If non ora when by Primo Levi . With Anna Foa ( 11 March 2019 ); The American Mafia – starting with Mario Puzo ‘s The Godfather . With Salvatore Lupo ( 8 April 2019 ). Philippe Daverio is
back by popular demand who, after the success of last year with the lectures-shows on the Europe of culture, will animate MYSTERY ITALIA: four evenings (on Monday at 8.30 pm) in which, through his glasses as a European citizen by birth and vocation, the famous art critic and writer will conduct an investigation as a cultural anthropologist, fun and full of unpublished ideas, for reread today’s reality and analyze the vices and virtues of our country. Titles: The languages ​​of Italy (29 October 2018); The bell towers of Italy (January 28, 2019); The landscapes of Italy (11 February 2019); The mirage of unity (25 March 2019).
