The dream workshop. At the Spoleto Festival, the first widespread edutainment project on costume
It is a new Festival project the one developed from Fabiana Giacomotti to corollary to the new staging of Claude Debussy'sopera Pélleaset Mélisande scheduled for June 24 and 25, 2023 at the Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti with the Budapest Festival Orchestra conducted from Iván Fischer, who also directs with Marco Gandini, and costumes by Anna Biagiotti.
Articulated in three different moments, The Dream Workshop includes a small comparative exhibition of costumes from performances of Pélleas et Mélisande, from the main national theater museums and made from Italian and foreign designers, on display from June 24 to July 9 in the foyer of the Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti. Also scheduled is a morning of study in the theater's Sala XVII settembre, dedicated to professionals and schools of costume and theater with the involvement of the production ofopera, the heads of the Festival's "costume and exhibitions system" and costume and fashion-costume designers such as Arthur Arbesser, costume designer from Oscar Massimo Cantini Parrini, Polimoda director Massimiliano Giornetti, and fashion designer Raffaella Curiel. to This formative moment is followed every Saturday (June 24, July 1, July 8) by a series of workshops in the San Nicolò Monumental Complex, by registration only, open to the public, to learn the value of costume in the relationship between text and music and to learn to create an easy costume/scene accessory that participants can take with them.