Capucci, my Prometheus for the Spoleto Festival

(ANSA) - ROME, JULY 03 - "I don't get inspired. I don't copy, I don't look. Yes, I observe a lot the nature, the plants, the colors of the flowers. But then it all comes to my mind. Always, even when I was working for the Haute Couture, I start with a sheet, lematite and start drawing. " This is how the master Roberto Capucci tells himself, 90 splendid springs in December, 70 of which passed to create clothes to "make women beautiful", which are part of the history of fashion. Today the master signs what he calls "new follies": 15 costumes of excellence in tailoring from as many of his sketches for "The Creatures of Prometheus / The creatures of Capucci", concert in scenic form on the score of Beethoven (of which the 250th anniversary of his birth occurs) ) produced in co-production by the Fondazione Carlo Felice of Genoa and the Festival dei DueMondi, curated by Daniele Cipriani, in world premiere in Spoleto on 28 August, with a preview of the 1 at the International Festival of Music and Ballet of Nervi.
    Choreographic movements by Simona Bucci for the CompagniaDaniele Cipriani will accompany the rare full performance, by the Orchestra of the Carlo Felice Theater in Genovadiretta by Andrea Battistoni.
    The living sculptures created by Capucci for Beethoven's work are colorful, geometric, or woven with flowers or with intertwined leaves. Three from sketches already exhibited in 2018 at Palazzo Pitti in Florence (Capucci Dionisiaco) and at Palazzo Scarpetta in Naples (Dream show. Drawings for the theater) and another 12 absolutely unpublished. "Prometheus? I have no idea who he really was. I was not inspired by him, it is clear. Indeed - he smiles - I was not sure that an orchestra conductor would accept the risk of distracting the public with these creatures. My challenge today? Continue to create and work, because for me it is like giving a thirsty a drink. " (HANDLE).