(ANSA) – LIVORNO, 28 NOV – Livorno rediscovers ‘Piccolo Marat’, a semi-lost work by the composer Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945), who made it in the maturity of his artistic career, staging it at the Goldoni Theater on 10 December ( 8.30 pm) and 12 December (4 pm). It is a new staging by the Goldoni Foundation under the direction of Mario Menicagli, on the podium of the Orchestra della Toscana, directed by Sarah Schinasi, sets and costumes by William Orlandi. De ‘Il piccolo Marat’, on a libretto in three acts by Gioacchino Forzano, this year marks the 100th anniversary of its first performance which took place in Rome, at the Teatro Costanzi, on May 2, 1921. The opera was a great success in theaters in Italy and abroad, with over 90 productions in the 1920s and it was still an acclaimed and highly represented title in the following years. But then it gradually disappeared from the stages in the second post-war period.
Presenting it again today in the hometown of Mascagni, with a new production and a new staging on the occasion of the centenary of that triumphal season, “is not only a rediscovery of an end in itself – it was underlined -, but an act of knowledge and enhancement of a composer who, for over 40 years, with his theater and his skills as an orchestra conductor, has been able to write new pages in the way of conceiving and performing opera theater in Italy and in the world “. In addition to the opera, there will be two related initiatives: on 7 December at 8.30 pm (Mascagni’s birth date) the concert ‘Happy Birthday Mascagni’ which will be presented by the journalist Alessandro Cecchi Paone with Mario Menicagli on the podium of the Ort and a program that will propose listening to pieces from ‘Il piccolo Marat’ and symphonic pages taken from the works of Mascagni.
Finally, the exhibition ‘One hundred years of Marat’ in the Mascagni room at Goldoni with over 50 images faithfully reproduced from the originals, including photographs, playbills, posters, letters, autographs and theatrical contracts by the Luca Viganò Historical Archive, great-grandson of Irma Viganò, one of Mascagni’s favorite sopranos, who had her protagonist in the very first editions of the Piccolo Marat. (HANDLE).
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