Pier Luigi Pizzi directs a new production of the 52nd Festival of the Two Worlds of Spoleto, Mozart, a “musical comédie” written in 1925 thanks to the encounter of the playwright and actor Sacha Guitry and composer Reynaldo Hahn.
“Mozart without his music. Marivauxdage without Marivaux. The Age of Enlightenment in a different light. What’s it all about? An insolent game, an erudite and elegant pastiche born from the genius of Sacha Guitry with the refined complicity of Reynaldo Hahn. It takes place in a Parisian saloon in the Twenties. Here, Marcel Proust passed by when lost time was found again through faraway characters and happenings that live in an absolutely natural contemporary.” (Pier Luigi Pizzi)
The Orchestra J. Futura is conducted by Jean Luc Tingaud; the role of Mozart is played by the soprano Sophie Haudebourg, while the role of Baron Grimm by Jean Sorel.
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“Apokàlypsis”: on Stage the Last and Most Mysterious Book of the Bible
Based upon a project by Mons. Gianfranco Ravasi, one of the most eminent expounders of the Holy Scriptures, libretto and music by Marcello Panni, “Apokàlypsis” is an oratory in seven parts and two acts, a “huge sound vision” embodied by Andrea Giordana and Sonia Bergamasco, the Italian Military Band, the Chamber Chorus Goffredo Petrassi, the Piccolo Coro Romano; sound sculptures by Yuri Kalendarev.
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