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LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
ROBERTO CAPUCCI
In the year that marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Ludwig van Beethoven (Bonn, Dec. 16, 1770 - Vienna, March 26, 1827), the Carlo Felice Foundation of Genoa presents in stage form the rare complete performance of the only ballet in Beethoven's catalog, offered in an evocative and unprecedented combination: The Creatures of Prometheus / The Creatures of Capucci. The project achieves a formidable encounter between the arts, celebrating the creative genius of two historic protagonists as distant in time as they are close in inspiration. from one side Ludwig van Beethoven with his only score to choreographic destination: the two-act ballet The Creatures ofPrometheus (Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus) op. 43, commissioned by the Imperial Theater of Vienna for choreography by Salvatore Viganò, which debuted at the Burgtheater in 1801. On the other, Roberto Capucci, master of international haute couture, an innovator of style capable of making clothes dialogue with nature, art and architecture, here a protagonist with a series of sketches with a strong visual impact, from recently displayed in the exhibition "Capucci Dionysiac. Drawings for the Theater" at the Uffizi in Florence. The two artistic processes meet on this occasion in their independent nature, distant in history and inspirational source: parallel lines that intersect in the stage space in an unusual union from to which new possibilities and visions are born. The two worlds meet in a metaphorical dimension: that of musical power inspired by mythology - as a representation of the archetypes that shape the human psyche - and that of "other" creatures that like effluvia appear only to disappear in the dreamlike imagination drawing from the same archetypal matrix.
Prometheus, ancient and rebellious titan, thief of sparks and dispenser of fire: a distant myth that tells of a humanity under construction, destined for civilization and progress through the divine gifts of love and beauty. It was precisely the "men of Prometheus" who were the focus of inspiration for Salvatore Viganò, a celebrated Italian choreographer engaged in the early nineteenth century in the staging of the ballet _The Creatures of Prometheus _with original music by Ludwig van Beethoven. The subject matter took up precisely the classical fable of Prometheus, "a noble spirit who, having found the men of his time in a state of ignorance, refined them in the sciences and the arts and trained them in manners."
On the musical level, Beethoven, faithfully followed the original outline indicated from Viganò (16 episodes to to which is added the well-known _Ouverture _and an Introduction); not only that, he succeeded in animating the draperies of the candid neoclassical framework with an instrumentation of daring refinement and generous with concertante elements.
In 2020, the Carlo Felice Foundation of Genoa pays homage to the musical genius of Ludwig van Beethoven with this concert in stage form to curated by Daniele Cipriani, an unprecedented encounter between music and high fashion. On the occasion of the concert, performed by the Carlo Felice Theater Orchestra and accompanied by Simona Bucci's stage movements, the production kicked off with the exceptional creation of 15 costumes from Roberto Capucci's original sketches exhibited in 2018 at the Uffizi in Florence: a surprising repertoire of men's costumes inspired by the idea of a dreamlike staging.
Music and fashion together in a dual and original tribute to the creative genius and imaginative power of art.
music by Ludwig van Beethoven
original costumes by Roberto Capucci
CONCERT IN STAGE FORM
director Andrea Battistoni
Orchestra of the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa
to edited by Daniele Cipriani
choreographic movements by Simona Bucci
co-production Spoleto63 Festival dei 2Mondi and Fondazione Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova
dancers (in order of appearance) Hal Yamanouchi, Fabio Bacaloni, Davide Bastioni, Filippo Pieroni, Nico Gattullo, Marco Lo Presti, Roberto Lori, Luca Campanella, Giampiero Giarri, Raffaele Iorio, Antonio Cardelli, Flavio Marullo, Riccardo Battaglia, Damiano Ottavio Bigi, Luca Giaccio
lights Luciano Novelli
video **Maxim Derevianko **.
thanks for collaboration to Maestro Capucci **Anna Biagiotti **.
Roberto Capucci was born to Rome in 1930; he attended the Liceo Artistico and the Accademia di Belle Arti. In 1950 Roberto Capucci´s maison was born with the first atelier in Via Sistina; in 1952 the first fashion show to Palazzo Pitti to Florence; in the same year he also shows to Rome. In 1962 he opened his first atelier to Paris at Rue Cambon, No. 4. Monsieur Dior will acclaim his creations, calling him "the best Italian creative." In the 1960s he parades to Paris. For the first time fashion lands in a museum: it is 1971 and an innovative collection inspired by to Pre-Raphaelite painters is presented at the Museum of Etruscan Art in Valle Giulia to Rome. Roberto Capucci's 1980s are characterized from creative freedom without constraints; he presents the first fashion show to Milan and international exhibitions, Tokyo '83, New York '85. In the 1990s he presented the exhibition _Roberto Capucci l´Arte Nella Moda - Volume, Color and Method _in Palazzo Strozzi to Florence and was welcomed in the world´s most important museums: Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna), Nordiska Museet (Stockholm), Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts (Moscow), Philadelphia Museum of Art, Reggia di Venaria Reale (Turin). In 1995 he was invited to to present his creations at the International Exhibition of Visual Arts at the Venice Biennale. In 2005, the Roberto Capucci Foundation was established. Since 2000, solo exhibitions to Tokyo, Madrid and Basel. In 2020 he makes two stage costumes for Les Etoiles, an international dance gala to curated by Daniele Cipriani.
Born to Verona in 1987, Andrea Battistoni is one of the young up-and-comers on the international music scene. He is a regular guest of the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, theOpera Australia in Sydney, the Arena in Verona, and has already been a guest of Teatro alla Scala, Teatro Regio in Turin, La Fenice in Venice, theOpera in Florence, Teatro Regio in Parma, the Dresden Semperoper, theOpera in Stockholm, the San Carlo in Naples, the Palau de Les Arts in Valencia, and numerous others. Numerous titles in the Verdi, Puccini and Verista repertoire including: Falstaff, Stiffelio, La battaglia di Legnano, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Rigoletto, Aida, Un ballo in maschera, Il trovatore, Nabucco, Iris, L'amico Fritz, Turandot, Tosca, La forza del destino, La Bohème, Madama Butterfly, Le nozze di Figaro, Il viaggio to Reims, Adriana Lecouvreur, La traviata, Luisa Miller, Otello, Macbeth, Billy Budd, Carmen and numerous others. Since November 2013, he has been Principal Conductor of the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa.
The Carlo Felice Theater Orchestra ties its history to the birth of Genoa's highest theater, which opened in the spring of 1828. Among the leading ensembles in the Italian music scene even in the twentieth century, in 1965 the Orchestra was given a stable structure. to since the 1950s the Orchestra has been conducted from conductors such as: Victor De Sabata, Tullio Serafin, Igor Stravinsky, Sergiu Celibidache, Claudio Abbado, Carlo Maria Giulini, Riccardo Muti, Georges Prêtre, Mstislav Rostropovič, Peter Maag, Myung-Whun Chung, Yury Ahronovitc, Daniel Oren, Antonio Pappano, Christian Thielemann, Daniele Gatti, Gary Bertini, Gennadij Rozdestvenskij, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Rudolf Barshai, Bruno Campanella, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Nello Santi, Michel Plasson, Bruno Bartoletti, Neville Marriner, Nicola Luisotti, Lu Jia, Juanjo Mena (Principal Guest Conductor of the Orchestra from 2007 to 2010), Diego Fasolis, Dmitrij Kitajenko, Manfred Honeck, Juraj Valčuha, Donato Renzetti, Kyrill Petrenko, Carlo Rizzi, Stefan Soltestz, Wayne Marshall, Alpesh Chauhan, Hartmut Haenchen, Vladimir Fedoseev. Numerous recordings, especially of opera productions recorded at the Teatro Carlo Felice, have been made for such labels as Deutsche-Grammophon, Decca, Sony, Tdk, Rai-Trade, Nuova Era Records, Arthaus Musik, Dynamic, Bongiovanni, Denon-Nippon and BMG-Ricordi. With a repertoire ranging from the early 18th century to Contemporary Music, the Orchestra of the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa ranks among the best in the Italian scene. Quality and versatility are the orchestra's keywords that allow it to move from tightrope walking concerts such as those with Igudesman&Joo or Janoska Ensemble, to projects of wide international scope such as participation in the Astana Expo 2017 for the Symphony of the "Thousand."