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strong>Saturday April 20 | Main Stage
by Venti Lucenti
inspired by Richard Wagner‘s Tristan und Isolde
Written and directed by Manu Lalli
Assistant Director Chiara Casalbuoni
Original music, arrangements and transcriptions Simone Piraino
Conductor Daniele Malinverno
Voce dal mare Maria Cristina Napoli
Narrators Pietro Massaro and Oriana Martucci
Teatro Massimo Orchestra and Chorus
Chorus Master Salvatore Punturo
with the classes of IC Rita Atria and IC Guglielmo Marconi
Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Massimo
Chorus Master Salvatore Punturo
Conductor Michele De Luca / Daniele Malinverno
Voce dal mare Maria Cristina Napoli / Natasa Kátai
Narrators Pietro Massaro and Oriana Martucci
with pupils and teachers of the schools IC Rita Atria and IC Guglielmo Marconi
Duration: 1 hour
For audiences aged 6 to 12 (and their families)
Tickets
15 / 10 / 5 €
Programme
The plot
The legend of Tristan and Isolde, one of the most romantic stories of the Middle Ages, is very old: it tells the adventures of a knight and a princess who fall in love thanks to a magic elixir. Wagner composed the opera based on Goffredo di Strasburgo’s text and staged it in 1865. It is still considered one of the masterpieces of all time. The version that will be performed, while maintaining the essential dramaturgical and musical lines intact, is adapted in such a way as to exalt the magical and symbolic fairy-tale aspects of the story, which has at its centre important themes linked to the imaginary and ideal horizon of the world of chivalry, such as the search for love, the relationship between public morality and private morality, sin and fidelity.
Gallery
Spoken parts of the performance are in Italian; a basic understanding of the language is adviced.
This Saturday performance is open to everyone.
Performances from Tue to Fri are events for school groups. In case seats are available to the general audience, they will be on sale on the same day of performance at the box-office.