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The Jungle Book
Music by Giovanni Sollima
Opera for children
Libretto by Pier Francesco Maestrini
Mowgli Giulia Bolcato
Bagheera Cecilia Bernini
Shere-Khan/Gurilla Matteo Mollica
Baloo Roberto Maietta
Akela/Kaa Luigi Morassi
Conductor and director Gianluca Martinenghi
Direction, libretto, and conception Pier Francesco Maestrini
Cartoons and conception Joshua Held
Costumes Luca Dall’Alpi
Lighting Simone Bovis
CUPIDITAS ORCHESTRA
NEW PRODUCTION
Teatro Regio di Parma
in co-production with Theater Lübeck, Theater Kiel, Teatro Coccia di Novara, Teatro Comunale di Modena, Fondazione I Teatri di Reggio Emilia
Giovanni Sollima is an internationally renowned cellist and one of the most performed contemporary Italian composers worldwide. Known for his genre-defying compositions, ranging from classical to popular music, he has collaborated with Riccardo Muti, Yo-Yo Ma, Viktoria Mullova, Patti Smith, Stefano Bollani, Elisa, and Paolo Fresu, and has performed at Carnegie Hall in New York, Wigmore Hall in London, Salle Gaveau in Paris, and La Scala in Milan. For cinema, theater, television, and dance, he has composed and performed music for artists such as Peter Greenaway, John Turturro, Bob Wilson, Carlos Saura, Karole Armitage, and Carolyn Carlson. With The Jungle Book, which debuted at the Kiel Theater in 2020, he created an opera for the whole family based on one of the most famous classics of British colonial literature (Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936). The story of a child’s growth and development among wild animals and his search for identity away from civilization was also immortalized and made famous by the 1967 Walt Disney film of the same name.
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The elegance of the stuccoes, the harmony of the proportions, the perfect acoustics, the prestigious history, along with the greatness of the artists who have graced its stage, make the Teatro Regio di Parma one of the most recognized and celebrated opera houses in the world. Commissioned by Duchess Maria Luigia of Austria and originally named the New Ducal Theatre, the Teatro Regio was inaugurated on May 16, 1829, with Zaira, an opera composed for the occasion by Vincenzo Bellini.
