"The Ferrara Years 2008-2020" exhibition reopens.
After the great interest from from the public during the 67th edition of the Festival, to starting from today friday July 19 it is again possible to visit, until to Sunday, September 15, the exhibition The Ferrara Years 2008-2020 curated from Piero Maccarinelli in the spaces of via Saffi 12. The exhibition is a new stage in the path of enhancing the artistic heritage initiated by the Foundation Festival dei Due Mondi, admission is free and inside the exhibition the information and sales point for the Festival's official merchandise also remains active (daily 11 a.m.-1 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.-7 p.m., special opening from Aug. 9-18).
to one year after his death, the Festival pays tribute to Giorgio Ferrara, director from 2008 to 2020: the exhibition is a careful selection of costumes, archival material and photographs. The exhibition's four rooms offer an immersion into Ferrara's creative world and that of his fellow travelers, offering a portrait of his extraordinary artistic legacy. Fifty-two photographs tell the story of the world that gravitated around to Giorgio Ferrara, from the artists involved for new productions to those invited to Spoleto (such as Jean Paul Gautier), to the personalities who came to the Festival to see performances. In addition to director, in his thirteen years to Spoleto Giorgio Ferrara was also the director of most of the operas produced by the Festival: a room collects photographs of his major opera productions, along with costumes from Gogo No Eiko and those from Le Nozze di Figaro, made from Maurizio Galante. to An entire room is dedicated to Le Nozze di Figaro: the audience can review the entire opera surrounded by the original costumes and wigs. Even the seating is exceptional; viewers can sit on two thrones from the original scenes made from Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo. And again the exhibition includes two costumes from Il Matrimonio Segreto by Piero Tosi from 2013, kindly granted from Dino Trappetti with the support of Fondazione Carla Fendi.
Until Sept. 15, at the Ex-Baptistery of the Golden Manna, the exhibition Legàmi, a project by photographer Luis Alberto Rodriguez and set designer Afra Zamara for Fondazione Carla Fendi, Main Partner of the Festival, in collaboration with Mahler & LeWitt Studios, is still on view. The two artists reinterpreted some of the 3,800 costumes that illustrate the history of the Festival: tying, knotting, and overlapping them, they constructed new combinations that capture their charm and details.