The Uninhabited Island Theatrical action in two parts Costanza <\/em>Giuseppina Bridelli<\/b> DOLCE CONCERTO ENSEMBLE<\/strong> NEW PRODUCTION No man is an island, preached the poet John Donne in the famous Meditation XVII<\/i>, a good century and a half before Haydn, in 1779, set out to compose on the theme of the confrontation between the state of nature and civilization, between the primal innocence of the noble savage and the corruption of human society, undoubtedly one of the querelles<\/i> most cherished by Enlightenment salons. A debate that this new production rereads in explicitly contemporary terms: \u201cFor the Romans, the insula<\/i> was the house \u2013 notes Luigi De Angelis<\/b> \u2013 In neurology, the insula<\/i> is the part of the brain most connected with empathy and painful emotions. In Haydn’s work, the island is a metaphor for a state of mind that perhaps, in this historical moment, concerns us closely. I believe we will all carry the sensation of confinement, isolation, and dealing with a limited vital perimeter for a long time. Every broader exploration has been entrusted to imagination, creativity, the permeable and pulsating walls of the dream.\u201d <\/p>\n With Chiara Lagani, De Angelis imagined that the protagonist Costanza, or rather the singer who plays her, slips into a deep sleep: \u201cHer mind is the island itself \u2013 he explains \u2013 we spectators are witnesses to her most secret inner projections. The other singer, her sister Silvia, represents the gaze that can contemplate a distant, unknown horizon, from which to be seduced, that is, to be abducted, led into a new, foreign territory. Silvia represents the more animalistic and natural, childlike, still genuine and fluid double, not stiffened, not affected by the experience of the pain of abandonment. 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\n<\/strong>Music by<\/em> Franz Joseph Haydn<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nLibretto by Pietro Metastasio
\n<\/strong>Publisher B\u00e4renreiter-Verlag, Kassel
\nRepresentative for Italy Casa Musicale Sonzogno di Piero Ostali, Milan<\/p>\n
\nSilvia <\/em>Anna Maria Sarra<\/b>
\nGernando <\/em>Kristian Adam<\/b>
\nEnrico <\/em>Christian Senn<\/b>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” overflow=”visible” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/2″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text css=”” text_direction=”default”]Conductor<\/em> Nicola Valentini<\/b>
\nDirector, sets, lighting, and video<\/em> Luigi De Angelis
\n<\/b>Dramaturgy and costumes <\/em>Chiara Lagani<\/b>
\nAssistant director and video<\/em> Andrea Argentieri<\/b>
\nProduction manager<\/em> Giuliana Rienzi<\/b><\/p>\n
\nFortepiano<\/em> Jacopo Raffaele<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nTeatro Alighieri di Ravenna
\nin co-production with Op\u00e9ra de Dijon
\n<\/strong>in collaboration with Fanny & Alexander[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/tab][tab icon_family=”none” title=”Info” id=”1768905208593-9″ tab_id=”1768905208593-4″][vc_row_inner column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” text_align=”left” row_position=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” pointer_events=”all”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” overflow=”visible” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text css=”” text_direction=”default”]An island like a room, its perimeter the boundary of the world, at its vertices four characters who lose and find themselves: the 2021\/22 Opera Season of Teatro Alighieri opens with a… happy shipwreck, that on The Uninhabited Island<\/i> by Haydn. The premiere of this project curated by Fanny & Alexander, an international co-production featuring Op\u00e9ra de Dijon alongside Alighieri, coincides with the debut of Luigi De Angelis and Nicola Valentini as director and conductor of an opera in their city. With the awareness of how Metastasio’s libretto, which Haydn set to music for the Esterh\u00e1zy court, lends itself to reflections on solitude and isolation, the new production explores the thin boundary between real and virtual, while images of the Sicilian island of Marettimo, in the Egadi, flow on stage. Valentini conducts the Dolce Concento Ensemble with Jacopo Raffaele on the fortepiano and the four voices are those of sopranos Giuseppina Bridelli and Anna Maria Sarra, tenor Krystian Adam, and bass Christian Senn; alongside De Angelis \u2013 who handles sets, lighting, and video in addition to directing \u2013 Chiara Lagani for dramaturgy and costumes and Andrea Argentieri, as assistant director and video. <\/b><\/p>\nEXTRA<\/h4>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” text_align=”left” row_position=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” pointer_events=”all”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”padding-1-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” overflow=”visible” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” enable_animation=”true” animation=”fade-in-from-bottom” animation_easing=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” delay=”150″][vc_video link=”https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=d9kCIYl600s” css=””][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner column_padding=”padding-1-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” overflow=”visible” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” enable_animation=”true” animation=”fade-in-from-bottom” animation_easing=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_video link=”https:\/\/youtu.be\/vv-3L19kyHU?si=krWtZaCp368t-a5K” css=””][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner column_padding=”padding-1-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” overflow=”visible” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” enable_animation=”true” animation=”fade-in-from-bottom” animation_easing=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” delay=”300″][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][nectar_global_section id=”302″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"