Info
Tuesday, May 4 2021, 06:30 pm
Livestreaming Ballet available on the Teatro Massimo WebTv
This event is part of the project #apertinonostantetutto (We keep going, regardless)
Coreographer Marco Goecke
Set & Costume Designs Michaela Springer
Lighting Designs Udo Haberland
Dramaturgy Esther Dreesen-Schaback
Production restaged by Fabio Palombo
Maître de ballet Jean-Sébastien Colau
A production of the Zurich Opernhaus
Music by
Fryderyk Chopin Concerto for piano and orchestra no. 1 in E minor op. 11
Russian Lullaby (traditional) dal CD A Circle Is Cast registrato e arrangiato da Libana (libana.com)
Claude Debussy Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
Fryderyk Chopin Concerto for piano and orchestra no. 2 in F minor op. 21
Conductor Keren Kagarlitsky
Piano Alexander Gadjiev
Teatro Massimo Ballet and Orchestra
This version of the ballet has been adapted to the security regulations
Concept and Broadcasting co-ordinator Gery Palazzotto
Sound Engineering Manfredi Clemente
Television Producer Antonio Di Giovanni
Cast
Cast
Nijinski Alessandro Cascioli
Diaghilev Michele Morelli
Matka, la madre Romina Leone
Tersicore Martina Pasinotti
Amico Isajef Giovanni Traetto
Romola Linda Messina
Dottore Diego Mulone
La morte, “Quel Qualcosa” Giorgia Leonardi
Microboy Emilio Barone
Libellula Yuriko Nishihara
Libellula uomo Alessandro Casà
Ragazza sbarra Jessica Tranchina
Spettro della rosa Francesca Bellone
Solo sogno Francesca Davoli
Solo sogno e Solo in rosso Vincenzo Carpino
Ragazza in rosso Madoka Sasaki
Scena gruppo Vito Bortone
Photo © Rosellina Garbo
Highlights
Created in 2016, Nijinski is an award-winning show that has toured the world and is signed by German choreographer Marco Goecke, artist in residence in prestigious European companies such as the Gauthier Dance/Theaterhaus in Stuttgart, the Nederland Dans Theater in The Hague and director of the Staatsballett of Hanover. “As a choreographer – says Marco Goecke – Nijinsky has always looked for new ways of expression … It was clear to me from the beginning that I wanted to create an emotional choreography, which drew inspiration from Nijinsky's character, but which absolutely had to go beyond the narrow frame of the biography”.
Goecke's choreography is characterized by very rapid, minute and nervous movements, hands that vibrate, arms that swirl in the air, gestures that could recall sequences from silent cinema and that evoke many of the ballets that made Nijinski and the Balletts Russes famous: from Petrushka to L’après– midi d’un faune, from Le specter de la rose to Le sacre du printemps.But they also give us the entire progression of the illness into which Nijinski gradually sank, until he was lost, consumed by schizophrenic delirium.